Re: extremely off topic-Xrays

!!
That's very interesting info!

> Do a bit of search on the web and think how you want your
> brain to be sliced.

Now, when you say "sliced"....
You don't mean....
Physically....
<gulp>
;-)
Although--and not to be inhuman--a thin enough slice of tissue might
make an interesting photogrammed image... all ethics aside, of course

k

Ryuji Suzuki wrote:

> From: Gumprint@aol.com
> Subject: Re: extremely off topic-Xrays
> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 22:27:16 -0500 (EST)
>
>
>>Where I live (greater Metro D.C.) the XRays are the property of the
>>physician who orders it, despite it being of you.
>
>
> I don't know about difference across states, etc. but this is partly
> the policy of the doctor, the hospital and the imaging center. My
> neurologist likes to send patients to an imaging center where the
> doctor could order duplicate films, and she also said some other
> imaging centers don't do that. But actually there's a way to get this
> all doen for free.
>
> But if you want to get your MRI scans of brain and skull, go find a
> newspaper, subway advertisement, free paper classified, craigslist,
> whatever and find all sorts of brain imaging studies. The best is to
> find a PhD student in neuroscience, psychology, whatever related
> field. They like to have you sit in the machine while you hear
> strange sounds or you count something or something simple, and they
> like to pay you some small amount of cash. Details vary from study to
> study but you contribute to scientific knowledge that may find some
> use for human health decades later, you get money to buy a brick of
> film, and if asked nicely, they'll probably burn a CD-ROM of TIFF
> images. Do a bit of search on the web and think how you want your
> brain to be sliced. Transverse, parasagittal, coronal are standard but
> they tend to slice on a non-standard plane that includes all brain
> structures of their interest. Those studies are also subject to
> privacy regulations but you sign on the informed consent form and they
> shouldn't be too uptight about it, especially if you promise to send a
> few of your friends for the study. Anatomical studies are probably the
> best because they should be getting high res scans... but dont
> complain me or them if you don't get the kind of slices you want -
> they may not gather the picture you want. (Some studies actually
> advertise the TIFF image in CD-ROM as a part of the compensation!)
>
> If you like true x-ray, you probably need some clinically legitimate
> reason and a doctor who doesn't mind extra trouble. Scientific studies
> use mostly MRI, because it uses no radiation or radioactive material
> and allows more functional investigation... making PET, CT,
> etc. rather obsolete. But you can get MRI scans that look similar to
> x-ray if you ask for the image "weighted" that way.
>
> --
> Ryuji Suzuki
> "Reality has always had too many heads." (Bob Dylan, Cold Irons Bound, 1997)
Received on Thu Nov 20 08:13:38 2003