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  • Important Questions to Consider when Choosing an MRI Facility

    Important Questions to Consider when Choosing an MRI Facility

    Posted on: 16-Jan-2020

    Injuries or accidents occur unexpectedly leaving you no choice but to deal with the situation. Also, there are times when your doctor needs to look further into your medical condition and will order a radiology test to get pictures of your insides (anatomy). X-rays, CT scans, MRI scans and Ultrasounds are the radiology tests commonly used to do this and you will be sent to the hospital or outpatient imaging facility (commonly called an MRI Facility).

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  • Tips to Alleviate Anxiety in an MRI

    Tips to Alleviate Anxiety in an MRI

    Posted on: 13-Dec-2019

    The most important thing while undergoing an MRI scan is to lie still and relax. But for patients who feel uncomfortable in confined spaces, the procedure can lead to some tense and anxious moments. At Houston MRI®, we rarely experience this problem as our advanced MRI machines have a more advanced ‘open’ design and the time in the MRI machine is usually about 20 minutes. However, if you belong to the 5% of Americans who have claustrophobia, here are some tips to alleviate anxiety when you are in an MRI:

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  • Can an MRI spot depression in a patient?

    Can an MRI spot depression in a patient?

    Posted on: 13-Dec-2019

    Depression is an abnormality of one of the higher brain functions, symptoms of which (sadness, emptiness, hopelessness) can sometimes be hard to identify. The good news is advanced MRI scans may be able to spot signs of depression within the brain. Some of the identifiable abnormalities could include:

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