Can you have a MRI performed if you have a titanium plate and/or screws in any part of your bone structure?
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Yes, Titanium is a non-ferris (not magnetic) metal and will not harm you when/ if you have an MRI, though the screws look cool on the film
690898
No u can't scan Ur body using MRI .. cause pacemaker is consist of electronic parts and this parts have ability to be forced to the magnet of the MRI so it may make a bad harm in Ur heart and make u bleeding .. so in this cases . u have to make scan using CT
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Nope, the x-ray is opague and you can see through the bone.  Go to Yahoo home page and search the web and then type in x-rays to see some samples.
587020
No, an X-ray is supposed to tell the difference between tissue and bone due to their difference in density.
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YES.  I did.  normally, Rods are IN the bone.\nDepending on how big it is, it could be minor surgery, it could be major. I had mine out after 9 years.\n\nI wouldn't do it, unless it is bothering you.  That is no simple task.\n\n\nGood Luck.
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The major difference is that MRI scanners CAN NOT image bone.\n\nUsing a very powerful magnet and pulsing radio waves the detection coils in the MRI scanner read the energy produced by water molecules as they mis-align themselves after each RF alignment pulse. The collected data is reconstructed into a two dimentional illustration through any axis of the body. Bone is virtually void of water and therefore does not generate any image data. This leaves a black area in the images. MRI scanners are best suited for imaging soft tissue.\n\nCT, Computerized Axial Tomgraphy, uses xrays to generate images of the body, including bone. In the CT scanner the x-ray tube, (source) rotates around the patient laying on the table. On the opposite side of the patient from the tube is the x-ray detector. This detector recieves the beam that makes it through the patient. The beam is sampled via some 764 channels, (approximate number of channels). The signal received by each channel is digitized to a 16 bit value and sent to the reconstruction processor. Measurements are taken about 1000 times per second. Scan rotations are usually 1 to 2 seconds long. Each view/channel chunk of scan data is compared to calibration scan data of air, water and polyethelyne, (soft plastic) previously acquired in the exact same relative location. The comparisons allow the image pixels to have a known value for a particular substance in the body regardless of differences in patient size and exposure factors. The more samples, or views, the better the picture. By doing the math you can see that a huge amount a data is acquired to generate one CT slice. 15 years ago it would take a supercomputer called an Array Processor almost a minute to reconstruct the image, now it happens within seconds. Doctors can look at the image and determine what they are looking at simply by the lightness or darkness of the grey areas on the monitor. CT scanners are not able to make still-life images of fast moving things like the heart.
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You know by listening to your doctor.  The MRI should tell him everything he needs to know.
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no .. its not acceptable to do MRI scan while u have Ear Acupuncture .. or pacemaker .or slice on ur neck or on ur spin cord \n\n\nbiomedical engineer ..
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X-Ray I have osteoporosis and have broken countless major bone and often didn't know it until I was X-Rayed days late. Last year I literally shattered my kneecap in Too many fragments to count and I wouldn't have even known if I had not said something to the Dr. for an unrelated visit.
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I would have a second and third opinion also.  I had a total hip 5 years ago (I'm not much older than you) and before I had it, I had titanium screws that came loose.  Who knows why?  But I do know that there are newer prothesises that don't require that long lateral cut now; almost like mini-replacements.  So I would see a doc that is up to date on new and better hardware.  It also sounds like you might have had some necrosis in the bone with the so called "plug".  Discuss that with your new orthopedic.  Hey, if the doc gets upset, that's his problem.  These things are suppose to last 25-35 years!  I don't think you did anything to cause the problem.  Just get all of the information you can beforehand.  That's what I would do.  Godloveya.
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Hey, getting an MRI is appropriate...then again the doctor may have to be able to read it correctly. I did have an MRI, one doctor said that I needed surgery, another told me that I need not. So I decided to be conservative and did physiotherapy, wore a brace for sports and it took me almost a year to recover fully. Healing takes time...give it the time that it needs...and it will! God bless U.
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shoulder injuries are the worst i had both of mine done , also , it will hurt the rest of your life i i have a permanent titanium screw in each shoulder now , and it hurts just walking through electronic doors now
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I would say thumb screws or applying the screw to any any part of the body.  I always thought caskets used nails, not screws.
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Cause the MRI is the best Equipment in medical imaging to have high contrast images to soft tissues\n\nand these images cant be done by Xray and CT cause X ray beam have very high attenuation to bones .... the used more in image the skull and bone structures
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That would be the MRI, ma'am.
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it depends where you are intending to go for the surgery doesn't it
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Bone is composed of proteins (including mucoproteins) and inorganic material; minerals.\n\nBoth are being added to, and removed, as we go on living.\n\nIn some circumstances, there is not enough of the inorganic minerals present.  The protein scaffolding is not well filled - in with calcium and magnesium salts.  Under Xrays, the bones will be less dense; the Xrays pass through the protein scaffolding as they pass through the protein of skin and muscle, etc.  The more minerals in the bone, the more the bone blocks Xrays.\n\n(I had a bone densitometry done, last week.)