Re: MRI and gadolinium

["Bob Sciamanda" <trebor@velocity.net>]

Just for the record, I think the referenced tutorial comes from the
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Rochester NY, not UFlorida.

Bob Sciamanda
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (ret)
trebor@velocity.net
http://www.velocity.net/~trebor
-----Original Message-----
From: brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
To: phys-l@atlantis.uwf.edu <phys-l@atlantis.uwf.edu>
Date: Thursday, August 20, 1998 8:13 AM
Subject: Re: MRI and gadolinium


> > . . .
> The excellent reference referring to a UFlorida online lecture effort
> mentioned by Bob Sciamanda, mentions ( if you have enough patience) that
> Gadolinium
> compounds are used as opacification agents or "contrast agents" in MR
imaging.
> Depending on the target organ, they may be injected.
> (As a Canadian surgeon proactising here confided to me - there is a U.S
> love affair with injections - where a broad band antibiotic might
elsewhere
> be administered in oral form, here it is de rigeur to provide it
> intra-muscularly.
> Patients essentially demand it. The therapeutic effects begin, after
all,
> in 3 minutes, rather than 30 minutes.
> The sharp however, has to be charged for and disposed of...)
>
> Sincerely
> Brian Whatcott    Altus OK