2006-09-29 17:50:35 · 5 answers · asked by sassygrl702 1 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Injuries
If you share your MRI results as part of a question I'm sure that there are responders such as myself that would be able to help you. I'm a R.N. who taught Nursing for over 25 years and have had lots of experience interpreting (explaining) various test results to other R.N.'s, student nurses, patients, friends, and family members. Good luck to you.
2006-09-29 18:00:49 · answer #1 · answered by marnie 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2006-09-30 00:56:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
WebMD.com might be accomodating. My suggestion is to purchase a medical dictionary and ask the radiology technician, a licensed nurse or even a doctor (if he/she will spend the time translating. You could go to your local community college and ask a professor or teacher in Allied Health what it means. A medical terminology professor or teacher probably would be your best bet there. The optimum situation is to simply ask the ordering MD, Nurse Practioner, Physician's Assistant what it means. After all they work for YOU and you have the right to understand the results of all testing and how it pertains to any treatment rendered.
2006-09-30 07:43:25 · answer #3 · answered by jr95667 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
List of MRI terms
Aliasing
Consequence of sampling in which any components of the signal that are at a higher frequency than the Nyquist limit will be "folded" in the spectrum (image) so that they appear to be at a lower frequency. This can produce an apparent wrapping around to the opposite side of the image of a portion of the object that extends beyond the edge of the reconstructed region.
BAIES
BAyesian Image EStimator. Estimator that reconstructs an image from a reduced raw data set by imposing general prior knowledge of MR images. Developed in this thesis.
Cartesian grid, see uniform grid.
Contrast
Intensity difference between two adjacent regions.
Crisp noise
uncorrelated noise, having spectral components of higher frequency than image information.
Edge
Difference of neighbouring pixel values.
Folding, see aliasing.
Full-scan
The number of measured k-space data equals the number of image pixels.
k-space
Mathematical space in which the Fourier transform of the image is presented.
value
Value along the y-axis of the k-space.
Nyquist limit
Frequency of a signal beyond which aliasing will occur in the sampling process.
Phase-encode distribution
Collection of phase-encode values.
Phase-encode value, see value.
Phase-encoding line
Horizontal line in the k-space. It's position is denoted with the value.
Pixel
Acronym for picture element; the smallest discrete part of a 2D digital image.
Pixel value, intensity
Weighted proton density in a pixel.
Profile
The imaging object.
Raw data
The digital MR signal sampled and stored during data acquisition. Also referred to as k-space data.
Repetition time
Time between two successive excitations.
Reduced scan
The number of measured k-space data is fewer than the number of image pixels.
Resolution
The smallest distance between two points in the object that can be distinguished as separate details in the image.
RIGR
Reduced-encoding Imaging with Generalized-series Reconstruction.
Samples
Discrete representations of a continuous signal.
Sampling
Conversion of the continuous (analog) signal to a series of discrete (digital) values by measurement at a set of particular times. If the rate of sampling is less than twice the highest frequency in the signal, aliasing will occur (Sampling Theorem). The duration of sampling determines how small a difference of frequencies can be separated.
Sampling strategy
Collection of phase-encodes to be measured.
SNR
Signal-to-noise ratio. Defined as the mean intensity in the image object, divided by the standard deviation of the noise.
Uniform grid
Equidistant rectangular grid.
Voxel
Acronym for volume element; the smallest discrete part of a 3D digital image.
Synonyms
frequency-encoding gradient = read-out gradient = measuring gradient
phase-encoding gradient = evolution gradient = preparation gradient
2006-09-30 00:53:38 · answer #4 · answered by Doctor C. 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sometimes they have quick study small dictionaries they sell at bookstores describing medical terms. The following sites look useful.
2006-09-30 01:02:08 · answer #5 · answered by Jay 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋