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Re:Portable MRI promises to provide immediate diagnosis in v... by lostlogin on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @02:56PM (#24424456)
It also relates to the patient though. Stroke patients are often not very compliant and a morality that is slow and requires a still patient is ill suited to a lot of the work an ED sees.
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Re:Portable MRI promises to provide immediate diagnosis in v... by ska on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @03:02PM (#24424549)
True enough, but MRI is not inherently too slow for this use. If the economics otherwise made sense, an acceptably fast throughput stroke protocol MR is quite doable.
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Re:Portable MRI promises to provide immediate diagnosis in v... by lostlogin on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @09:31PM (#24427987)
It is. The requirements of the MR environment make it a lot more difficult than CT though. For example a tubed patient is harder to manage in MR than CT, and while this is done regularly it isn't as easily done as CT.
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Re:Portable MRI promises to provide immediate diagnosis in v... by ska on Thursday September 10, 2020 @01:21AM (#24429125)
True, but the improved contrast would probably make it a no-brainer if the other issues were taken care of .
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Re:Portable MRI promises to provide immediate diagnosis in v... by lostlogin on Thursday September 10, 2020 @01:55AM (#24429306)
Pun intended?

The contrast is so good.

You are probably aware, but there are 5 minute protocols (Siemens call their one a “go brain”) that are pretty reasonable, and probably not far off a gold standard routine protocol 10 years ago.

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