What to Expect
Your comfort and safety is our greatest concern. Please read below to learn more about our state-of-the-art MRI and to know what to expect.
- Before your MRI exam, you can eat and drink normally and continue to take any medications prescribed by your doctor, unless otherwise directed at the time your appointment is scheduled.
- For your safety, it is imperative that you remove all jewelry, glasses, hearing aids, coins, keys, hairpins, dentures, credit cards, and other such metallic objects.
- You should alert our technologist if you are pregnant or if you have a pacemaker or any other type of metallic implant.
- Your exam may require the administration of a non-iodine contrast agent to make it easier to view certain areas of the body.
- You will be asked to change into a patient gown and will be asked to lie still throughout the scan.
- You will hear knocking sounds, do not be alarmed as these sounds are normal.