Is head MRI scary?

For people with head diseases or trauma, doctors will perform examinations through MRI, but many people are not familiar with this method. Is head MRI scary? In fact, this is a very safe way of examination, and the examination effect is very good. It is also widely used in clinical practice, so it is not scary. There are just some precautions that people doing the examination need to know.

Magnetic resonance imaging, commonly known as MRI, is increasingly used in clinical practice because it does not cause any radioactive damage to the human body, can perform multi-directional and multi-level imaging, and can display the human body's anatomical structure and lesions in two-dimensional and three-dimensional ways. However, before undergoing an MRI examination, you must understand several examination precautions to avoid adverse effects.

1. Patients with pacemakers, heart stents, vascular stents, heart bypass grafts, or neurostimulators cannot undergo MRI.

2. Those with silver clips in the skull or metal foreign bodies in the eyeballs are prohibited from undergoing this examination.

3. People who have undergone arterial disease surgery (post-aneurysm surgery), heart surgery, and have artificial heart valves cannot undergo MRI.

4. Patients with insulin pumps cannot do this.

5. If there are metal objects in the examination area (steel plates, steel nails, iron nails inside the body or skull), you should proactively inform the examining doctor of the situation in advance.

6. Women should take off bras with metal bra hooks, and pregnant women should be cautious when undergoing MRI.

7. Before the inspection, please remove any metal objects such as coins, glasses, pens and various magnetic cards to avoid affecting the inspection.