re: Women gets full body MRI.. Discovers she has non-ruptured aneurysm

I didn’t have a full body MRI but was having some leg pain that was new. It ended up being a tumor on my spinal cord in the S1 area. Finding it was a blessing.

This whole thing is an advert doofus.

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I've got an organ for her if she misses her spleen

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Lose a spleen
Gain a splenis

Seems like a net wash

I sell MRIs and no BS, whole body MRI scans is the future in terms of discovery and prevention.

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Comparatively, MRI has terrible spatial resolution compared to CT and Radiography. So when looking for tiny things such as lung nodules, small pancreatic lesions, and small aneurysms you want the best spatial resolution. For example, we don't currently use MRI for lung cancer screening, we use CT which has much better detection for small lesions.

MRI is great contrast resolution (telling the difference between different tissues) for characterizing things and seeing the spread and extent of something initially seen other imaging modalities.

Furthermore, to acquire a whole-body MRI you have to crank up the field of view on the scanner which further degrades the spatial resolution of the scan. And forget about finding anything useful in anything that moves, the bowel, the lungs etc., or anything really small like small pancreatic lesions. Also, these companies aren't using contrast which lessens the sensitivity of the scans and they are relying on a concept called diffusion weighting to find these tumors. The problem is not all things that restrict diffusion are tumors and not all tumors restrict diffusion.

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nice another rad. what specialty do you practice?

also, if these end up becoming a common place thing, i just can't imagine the rad that would be okay reading such a shite study and putting themselves on the line like that. I feel like my read would basically be "limited study given technical parameters. limited diagnostic value."

“ full body CT once a year”

Not a Dr. but that seems like a lot of radiation to me.
Maybe Mr.Spock would weigh in.

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MrSpock

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Why not just have a complete CT body scan?

Wouldn't the 128 slice scan reveal potential health issues better?

Several folks have mentioned heart issues.
There is a new technique that came out over a year ago called the Cleerly coronary analysis which is non-invasive .
It uses AI technology to look for soft plaque in the arteries and predicts artery issues.
The Cleerly scan is said to be superior to the standard CAC score test.

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Bony detail??? What, are we bloodletting and using leeches again??? Modern science doesn’t care about bony detail.

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Excuse me?

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bet you can negotiate that even

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I doubt it. Didn’t read the article but I assume a full body MRI is a cash only exam.

Every mri place has the cash option. MRI brain on insurance is probably 2500-3500. Then you pay deductible and your 10-30% of that price. That’s one body part. Cash MRI brain? Probably 250-500 bucks. My cervical spine MRI cost 300. Total that all up for a full body scan. $2500 is about right give or take 500 dollars.


BTW how fricking long is that study. A brain or neck is probably 30 minutes. Lower back 30-45. I can’t imagine how long a full body takes. That’s a long time in that little tube.