“Click.Beep.Click.” The mysterious sounds of the MRI machine clouded my brain. The feeling of hopelessness takes over as I am not able to move. The feeling of an eternity overwhelmed me, as the blaring sounds of the machine took over my feeble body. The feeling of not knowing what was wrong with me was just the beginning of the struggle until two months later, the solution presented itself. Ending freshman year on a high note filled me with excitement for sophomore year. I was eager to continue as well as I did, but I would not know what was ahead of me. As the year rolls around, I did well to continue succeeding in school, but in a span of a few months the changes were drastic. I got sick and the doctors couldn’t find out what was wrong with me. The feeling of mystery filled my mind with deep thoughts. …show more content…
The constant struggle of being in and out of hospitals revolved around one saying, “It’s all physiological”: that’s what doctors always told my parents. It wasn’t until a spinal tap that pinched my nerve and caused my left leg to not be able to function. Then suddenly one day, I couldn't talk properly and develop a stutter, causing the doctors to further investigate my problem. All the tests and countless hours I spent with an IV in my arm and finally, in the end, the verdict: too much pressure in the brain found by a spinal tap for pressure. As I took the medicine and went to therapies, I finally returned to school and get rid of my stutter. I came back with only three weeks left in the semester. Everyday after school for the next three weeks, I tried to change the grades. Although I was able to bring up my grades, I was not satisfied with the final result. Balancing school and therapy was a challenge. With hearing the words “You’re free to go,” I felt this burden lift off my chest as the speech therapist said to me on our last
My interest in MRI started when I first read the book “MRI, The Basics” written by the author Ray Hashemi. By the time I successfully finished my MRI clinical placement in Tehran University of Medical Sciences, I knew for sure that MRI would be the field I would be choosing to take on. What attracts me most about MRI is how beautifully scientist could create a technology that can take advantage of the magnetic moments of human body for imaging it without any harms of ionizing radiation. Although there are drawbacks to MRI, combining it with other modalities would be a more effective approach to an accurate diagnosis.
After graduating with my Bachelor’s degree, I continued to work as a staff MRI technologist. Even though I loved what I did and had a passion helping people, the lack of diversity within radiology and its limited room for growth bothered me. I decided to look into furthering my career and found an interest in Health Information Technology. Upon researching many different schools through the country offering an online graduate Health Information Technology program, the University of Michigan in Dearborn stood out to me. Medicine and technology have both always been a part of my life, and I am very happy and excited that the chance for it to play a new part has finally arrived. I’m motivated to learn how I can combine the science of information with clinical knowledge so I can help to better patient care and
Wow, three years have passed and the last day is just as long as the first. Three years of hard discipline and learning to get used to homework every night. Three years of standing on the front steps waiting for my parents and saying goodbye to my teachers. I never thought the goodbye might be permanent. 6th grade came and I was looking up at those giant 8th graders, and now I guess I’m one of them. 6th grade, and I was saying hello, and now 8th grade has come and it’s gone from introductions to goodbyes as my last days as a middle school student wind down.
One of the most recently new advances in radiology is the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). MRI has been around for the past century. It was at first called Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and then it changed to MRI once there was an available image. Walter Gerlach and Otto Stern were the first scientists to start experimenting with the magnetic imaging. Their very first experiment was looking at the magnetic moments of silver by using some type of x-ray beam. The scientists then discovered this was by realizing that the magnetic force in the equipment and in the object itself. In 1975, the first image was finally created using and MRI machine. The scientists used a Fourier Transformation machine to reconstruct images into 2D. The first images ever use diagnostically was in 1980. This is when hospitals began to use them. At first the images took hours to develop and were only used on the patients that needed it most. Even though MRI has been around for a long time, it has advanced and has been one of the best imaging modalities recently (Geva, 2006).
The changing magnetic moment of the net magnetic vector results in free induction decay (FID). This induces an electrical signal which is received by the RF coil in the transverse plane and reduces as the net magnetic vector moves to the long or z axis. The computer system receives the RF signal and performs an analog to digital conversion. The digital signal representing the imaged body part is stored in the temporary image space, or K-Space. K-Space stores digitized MR signals during data acquisition.
Paramedics squeeze my arms, staining their gloves a deep red. Doctors and nurses scream at each other as they run across the hallways wheeling me into the operating theatre. I look over to my wrists as clear fluids begin their journey into my veins. My heart is in my throat, my pulse is echoing throughout the room, my limbs are quivering, and my lungs are screaming. Nurses force plastic tubes up my nose, as jets of cold air enter my sinuses, giving me relief. Inkblots dance before my eyes like a symphony of lights. A sudden sleepiness overcomes me and slowly my vision dims.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is one of the medical imaging modality which provides excellent internal structures of the body using magnetic radiation (WHO, 2014). Better Health Channel (2011) suggested MRI is notably helpful visualizing contrasts of body organs and soft tissues, WHO pointed out MRI generates excellent images of the brain, spine, muscles, joints and other body structures. The images generated by the MRI machine is multiplanar, this means the image is obtained in multiple planes of the body without the patient changing its body position (WHO, 2014). MRI can also be viewed in 3D (Southern Radiology).
I am applying with great enthusiasm for a graduate opportunity in your lab. I have an immense research interest in MRI techniques and its applications. On a quick note, I am a Radiology technologist (BSc, India) and completed an MSc in Medical Imaging (UK). My passion in MRI is its inherent ability in multi modal quantitative imaging. Clearly, the research contributions by your lab in quantitative MRI, measuring R2, R2*, susceptibility mapping, iron quantification on Multiple Sclerosis are my particular interest.
In a quote from David Gerrold he says, “In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds.” One of the many amazing medical technologies that we have today is an MRI (magnetic resonance image). MRI’s save millions of lives every year by getting us clear images of internal body structures so that we can diagnose and treat patients quickly.
A gurney was pulled into the MRI bore (left) and a metal wheelchair stuck into the magnet (right) (Capizzani, 2009; M. A. Tobias Gilk, 2006).
For the majority of patients receive an MRI it is safe. The MRI uses magnetic fields and radio frequencies to create images; therefore, there is no need to use harmful ionizing radiation.
After speaking my final word, I felt a wave of serenity wash over me. I finally did something I’d yearned to do for years and learned to take risks instead of sitting back and watching my life pass me
I can almost remember that day like it was yesterday, I awoke like on any other school day. It was a gorgeous May morning, the rays of sun flittered through my miniblinds blinding me as if I hadn’t seen light in days. I sluggishly dragged my limp body out of my warm bed, retiring to the bathroom to perform my normal morning rituals shower, shave, brush my teeth, get dressed, do my hair, and all the other regulars. As I looked at myself while combing my hair, it hit me like a speeding express train, I was about to graduate. I couldn’t help but smile, but at the same time I felt like a part of me was drifting away. A tear came to my eye as I realized what was about to happen to me.
Graduation: the last day that I would unwillingly set foot on the fields of Horizon High School. I could feel my heart beating out of my chest, and tried so hard to keep my feet moving one after the other in order to maintain my perfect stature. After the two hour wait of opening speeches, class songs, and the calling off of the five hundred plus names that were in front of me, it was finally my turn. As my row stood up and we walked towards the stage it had set in at last, this is it, I am done. My high school career ended on that night, but it didn’t close the book that is my life, it only started a new chapter, and with it came a whole slue of uncertainties.
My mind was all muddled up and everything went topsy-turvy inside it. Yet, I remained still and silent. No one would ever imagine how I was feeling. There wasn't the cool atmosphere around me, nor the usual tranquility outside. My heart was pounding fast. I could hear the voice of my doctor saying that I had cancer and I could only live for a month.