New MRI Protocols

Hello again, this week there has been minimal scan time for me at the facility where I do my clinicals here in Indianapolis Indiana. They just had new MRI protocol loaded on Tuesday and have had to make quite a few adjustments which has taken a better part of the week to do. With the new protocol, IPAT has been added which will help cut down scan time for patients that are having their cervical, thoracic lumbar and so on scanned that are in too much pain or are claustrophobic. With the IPAT, you use the body coil plus the neck or body coil. It is amazing to see just how short the scans are performed.
There are still a great deal of scans to set up so next week will probably be the same as this week with minimal scan time for me. I understand that it has to be done but it has come at an unfortunate time. I'm struggling to comp out on two more scans so I hope all of this will be figured out so that I can comp out before the end of the semester. Wish me luck!
I hope everyone is doing well this semester - hang in there!

Exciting day!

Hello everyone,

Yesterday I was finally able to see a few MRI soft tissue necks with and without contrast exams and an abdomen (liver) with and without contrast. The soft tissue neck was interesting because of the patients history and as to why we were scanning them. The first patient had cancer of the lymph nodes and the other patient had a carcinoma of the mouth. The abdomen (liver) was for a patient that had metastatic cancer and they had spotted lesions on liver. That exam was interesting for me because I work during the day so I don't have many opportunities to take off from work to come in to the MRI facility and see contrast power injections. It was very cool to watch the breathing holds because one actually lasted 35 seconds which is a long hold but the patient did an excellent job. It was a very smooth day and I hope to be able to see more power injections in the future.

I hope everyone is having a great semester.