Mark-1 The world’s first whole-body MRI Scanner

Re:Mark-1 The world’s first whole-body MRI Scanner by anon1m0us on Sunday October 20, 2019 @07:41PM (#21308123)

It would be good when trying to determine if there's a build-up of plaque anywhere in a person's arteries and thus at risk of many different cardio-vascular diseases.

They use special dyes injected into arteries to facilitate seeing them. Similar things are done for examining the gastrointestinal tract of those who might have cancers somewhere in it.

You might also want to see if cancers have metastasized to other parts of the body to determine the extent of the disease.

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Re:Mark-1 The world’s first whole-body MRI Scanner by spease on Monday October 21, 2019 @01:45AM (#21309608)

Re: that first paragraph, there’s a CT scan procedure that costs a modest amount that checks for plaque buildup principally in your heart. I think it’s “coronary calcium scan”. I was surprised it isn’t more well-known and widely used for screening.

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