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MRI

Magnetic Resonance Imaging is a screening that helps to get detailed images of soft body tissue and organs without harming them from any radiations as compared to X-ray or CT Scan. This process is non-invasive and painless. In this process a large machine scans body that uses magnet and radio waves which produces high resolution two dimensional or three dimensional images and given a detailed output of the scan which can be used to detect cardiovascular, neurological, oncological, and musculoskeletal diseases or injuries.
MRI is also used to identity prostate related diseases and is very helpful in evaluating Prostatitis (infection), enlarged prostate (BPH), congenital abnormalities.
Prostate MRI scans are no longer an insured treatment reimbursed by OHIP, according to the Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care, therefore patients who have an elevated PSA level and who haven't had a prior biopsy can now pay privately for them.

In this type of study, anatomical and functional evaluation of the brain is conducted to find changes or injuries in the brain.
Susceptibility Weighted Imaging MRI scan is performed to diagnose traumatic brain injuries brain hemorrhages, cerebrovascular diseases, Ischemic diseases, Arteriovenous Malformation, and Neurodegenerative diseases.
SWI is a new MRI sequencing depends on magnetic sensitivity of tissues and compounds in brain. Some byproducts of brain hemorrhage can be identified by this magnetic sensitivity.
Brain Injury Evaluation is also a type of MRI

Through the use of computer processing, a computed tomography (CT) scan produces cross-sectional images (slices) of the bones, blood arteries, and soft tissues inside your body by combining a number of X-ray images collected from various angles all over your body.
Images from a CT scan offer more information than an X-ray would. It is used for varied reason but is often used to examine external injuries from an accident or diagnose injuries for planning a surgery.

SPECT Brain Scan is a type of CT Scan.
Brain function can be identified in these type of scans which uses radio-pharmaceutical agent to define blood flow patterns through out the brain.
As blood flow helps oxygen and other nutrients to reach brain, less or excessive blood flow could hamper with activity of the brain and hence needs to be diagnosed with SPECT Brain Scan
This type of scan can be used to identify problems like head trauma, Epilepsy, Dementia, Seizures with foci, Clogged blood vessels, infections and more.

X-rays are an electromagnetic radiation type that resembles visible light. Images of inside bodily tissues and structures are produced through medical X-ray imaging.
The photos depict the various body parts in various shades of black and white. This is due to the fact that various tissues absorb radiation in different ways. Since calcium in bones absorbs the most rays, bones appear white. Fat and other soft tissues absorb less rays and thus have a grayish appearance. Lungs seem black because air absorbs the least rays.

High-frequency sound waves are used in ultrasound imaging to create images of the organs and tissue inside the body. It is used by medical practitioners to identify the origins of discomfort, inflammation, and infections in the body's interior organs.
Ultrasound scan doesn't expose you to radiations like x-rays do and hence viewing the fetus during pregnancy is one of its most popular applications.