What is the Cost of Brain MRI ?
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FREE HERE  (Australia)lucky for me & her wife has had 10 since February & they saved her life by finding a problem & checking that it is fixed after the operations
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No, it is not true. All of your brain gets used, at different times, for different functions. \n\nHow can it be measured? PET scans and fMRI.
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are you serious?! go to www.pubmed.org, type in 'brain'... I'm pretty sure you'll get in excess of 100,000 articles...
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I know my husband starts at $50.00  (out of pocket)then depending on his findings. lab work can go from 50-100 dollars for basic Lab work more if there is a problem.
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With the cost of medical treatment?  \nreasonable.\nrational?
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It's expensive, I know that. It's something like $323.68 without insurance. (Last figure I rememeber being told to me by my pshychiatrist in CO).
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Those are free after age 40 but before hand well that is not a thing you can just go down and get. You have to have a Doctors order to get one. There are some places that are privet that can do it but your insurance wont cover this kind of thing its not expensive at all they just take the study and you have the choice to have it read by a doctor that works for them know that costs allot trust me.  You also can just take it to your own Doctor and he can read it as well. You need to check it out call your local hospital talk to the Radiology Department and they will turn you in the right direction. Oh talk to the File room they deal with everyone from Lawyers to Doctors around the USA. \n\nWarning....You may have to drive a bit to get to a place if you dont live in a major city.
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About $12, depending on condition.
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI),
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Yes, an MRI scan or magnetic resonance image shows the anatomical and structural details of the brain. The mRi technician reads the MRI scan and compares it with a normal scan to determine which structures are enlarged, missing, or damaged. Structures of the brain such as the corpus callosum, the ventricles, and hemispheres are easily visible in the MRI
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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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Well, there are CAT Scans where they take pictures of the brain in "slices" and there's an MRI, similar but much more detailed.  CAT Scans are used before MRI's because they are cheaper and Insurance companies insist on it.  And these are the only two ways to do it without cutting the top of your skull off.  I'm not trying to be funny, just stating a fact.
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Are you talking about a MRI scan?  Abnormal is not very descriptive.  There should have been more of a description with your imaging report.  And a neurologist will be more help to you than anyone you will find on here.....
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It's about the average weight of a human brain.
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How come you've chosen the category of 'Alternative Medecine' for this question? www.netdoctor.co.uk .. search for MRI scan will give you a breakdown of the differences between the two. MRI scanning is superior to CT scanning and there is no obvious logical reason to have both.
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Boy you should be sure that you need one if you are getting on.  Around here it costs about $2500 and then you have to pay for the radiology bill which is probably another $400 to $500
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Between $100,000 - 250,000 US dollars, but many insurance companies will pay for it. There are also other ways to cover the cost for the transplant, you should discuss this with the hospital social worker or your doctor. You should also keep in mind expenses to the family for such things as extensive lodging, meals, loss of income . . making the total cost much higher. \n\nNational Bone Marrow: Frequently asked Questions\nhttp://www.nbmtlink.org/faq.asp