Technological advancements over time led to the production and widespread use of electronic devices, such as smartphones, personal computers, laptops, tablets, and more, and the optimization of many industries, including the healthcare and medical industry. The invention of medical devices allows doctors and medical professionals to give their patients more efficient and accurate diagnoses of health conditions.
Technological advancements have resulted in medical equipment and supplies that medical professionals use to monitor and treat young children, adolescents, and adults. Such devices enable doctors and clinicians to observe and measure aspects of their patients’ health, make a diagnosis, and create a fitting treatment plan.
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Some examples of medical technology include products that make diabetes care easier, robotic prosthetic limbs, artificial organs, and advanced surgical instruments. The inclusion of electrical engineering into medicine led to medical imaging techniques and devices such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines and computed tomography (CT) scan machines.
Just as stethoscopes allow physicians to listen to the heart and lungs to diagnose bronchitis, pneumonia, and heart issues, and as electrocardiographs measure the heart’s electrical activity and enable doctors to diagnose heart damage, MRIs can reveal many health conditions and lead to diagnoses.
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What is an MRI?
An MRI is a medical imaging technique in which a magnetic field and computer-generated radio waves produce detailed three-dimensional (3D) images of tissues and organs inside the body.
Conducting an MRI requires a patient to lie inside the MRI machine, where the magnetic field temporarily realigns the water molecules in the patient’s body. The energy needed to create detailed internal images results from the lining up of the patient’s hydrogen atoms.
This medical imaging technique is non-invasive and doesn’t cause radiation exposure, making it preferable to others, such as CT scans.
What Can MRIs Reveal?
Common uses for MRIs include examinations of the brain and spinal cord, kidneys, liver, spleen, bones and joints, ovaries and uterus, and the heart and blood vessels.
Detailed images produced by MRI scans can result in the detection of tumors and internal organ abnormalities, and the diagnosis and evaluation of traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord disorders, strokes, bone infections, and other health conditions.
A full body MRI, such as the scan created by Ezra’s artificial intelligence-backed technology, is more effective compared to MRIs that focus on tissues and organs. Ezra’s non-invasive full-body MRI is thorough at screening a patient’s body to detect several forms of cancer.
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What Can Be Diagnosed by MRI?
Cancer impacts an estimated 23.3 million American adults (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2018). MRIs are as crucial to cancer detection and diagnosis as blood tests, urine tests, biopsies, and tissue samples. Ezra’s safe, full-body MRI can detect cancer in the pancreas, brain, thyroid, breasts, and more. MRI scans can lead to a scoliosis diagnosis because they can show detailed images of the spine and reveal unusual spinal curves and other structural spinal abnormalities. MRIs may be a necessity for patients ten years old or younger, who have unusually curved spines that worsen, or who have neurological problems.
Individuals who need care and treatment for this condition should seek the services of Scoliosis Systems, a team comprised of the best scoliosis doctors. Scoliosis Systems is a team of professionals that treats scoliosis in adolescents and adults via a multidisciplinary approach. These experienced doctors and therapists pioneered an innovative scoliosis treatment program, Scoli-Fit, that reduces scoliosis symptoms using non-surgical methods.
MRI scans optimize the way doctors form diagnoses and create treatment plans for patients, resulting in improved quality of care and the quality of patients’ lives.
