We perform all basic MRI services such as MRI of the Brain, Soft Tissue Neck, Cspine, Tspine, Lspine, Sacrum and Coccyx, Abdomen, Breast, Chest, Cardiac, Knee, Shoulder, Ankle, Wrist, Foot, Toes, Fingers, Pelvis and Prostate.  We can do specialized high resolution studies of the rectum, prostate and cervix without an endorectal coil.   Just a week ago we picked up a small metastasis to bone from prostate cancer which was not detected by bone scan or CT.   This is because we have twice the signal to noise (SNR) of most other scanners and the improvement lets us scan the high resolution images without the special invasive coil.  Our coccyx images are done in the lumbar coil and are incredible.  We have a nice case of coccydynia which shows enhacement and inflammation on a contrast enhanced fat sat image.  Usually on MRI we see nothing in such cases.  Because of the detail and sensitivity to enhancement we finally can actually see positive findings in these patients.  We have have a enhancing nuchal ligament tendinitis case and subtle shoulder tendinitis picked up by indirect arthrography.  The shoulder arthrograms are astounding.  We can see the cartilage surfaces in the shoulder because of our higher resolution and thinner sections.  The key to seeing more at 3T is using contrast and fat sat and contiguous 2mm thick sections.  This combination is very hard to do at 1.5T and easy to do at 3T.

Breast MRI is superior at 3T field strengths.  www.3tbreastmri.com

MR angiography is particularly improved at 3T. The highest quality MR angiography is possible at 3T.  We scan with double the resolution of other scanners and can make an equivocal case on other scanners either positive or negative.  We can be definitive.

MR cholangiography is also improved at 3T.  We can see smaller branches and strictures using the power of 3T.  Diffusion weighted imaging is also improved at 3T and makes pacnreatic cancers stand out.  3T diffusion weighted imaging is also good for imaging of prostate cancer.  Rectal cancer imaging is also improived at 3T.

Fetal MRI is usually done at 1.5T, but 3T offers us the capability of scanning faster or with higher resolution.  It is possible this may aid us in the future in fetal MRI.

Functional MRI studies can be done at 3T and are much more statistically sound than the same studies done at 1.5T.  The extra signal to noise helps us especially for functional MRI.

Please feel free to call us with any questions about your MRI study.

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SNR or signal to noise ratio is the yardstick by which one can compare images from one machine to another.  3T MRI has at least twice the signal to noise of lower field scanners.  This means to make an image of the same signal to noise you have to scan four times as long.