"Jon Elson" wrote in message
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kfvorwerk wrote:
On Apr 2, 6:55 pm, "Nutz" wrote:
"ATP*" wrote in message

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Has anybody had one of these orbital x-rays to determine if there are
any
metal fragments in or around your eyes prior to an MRI? Apparently the
magnet can move any small piece in your eye and do major damage. When I
got to that point on the consent form I couldn't rule out the
possibility....I guess I'll find out tomorrow.
Yep, a few years back. Took about 1 minute - "stand here, hold this",
click
and it was done. They came back 5 minutes later and said no problems, go
get
your MRI, oh....be sure to remove any genital piercings as well. : )

After much research over the past 60 seconds. I've found out that you
can be safe wearing your genital piercings in an MRI if they're
nonmagnetic (which of course most are) and it's not the area of the
scan.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...8065648AA9OrhY
Karl
I wouldn't be so sure. Any metal in the body, if placed within the
gradient coils and the RF coils, can get hot. No, make that HOT!!!
They are pumping up to 14 KW of RF into your body in some of the newer
machines.

Jon

no, it depends upon the metal. i have a metal plate and screws in my neck
and have had numerous mri's. yes, i've also had the orbital scan for eye
metal fragments. you only need to do this once, and as long as you don't
have any further eye/metal problems, it doesn't need to be repeated.