Alnoor Diagnostic Centre MRI Contrast Charges Test Price and Details

Last Updated On Wednesday, December 4, 2024

What is the MRI Contrast?

MRI is also known as magnetic resonance imaging. It is very important in the overall health care industry for the value it has to offer. The machine of an MRI is like a large cylindrical piece of equipment that generates powerful and strong magnetic field around the patient. It creates highly detailed pictures of the body’s soft tissue of the patient to provide your doctor with important diagnostic and prognostic information. But you might not know about the contrast. It has a clinical role. A gadolinium-based contrast agent (GBCAs) is used. For you to understand it easily, it is a type of MRI dye, that will help in adding clarity and depth to the MRI image.

When is an MRI Contrast performed?

An MRI contrast can only be performed after a doctor prescribes it. It cannot be performed without a doctor’s permit.

What does an MRI Contrast detect?

When you are getting an MRI contrast scan, they will inject the gadolinium-based dye into your arm intravenously. The job of this contrast is to make the image of your body parts visible and clear, in the end making them more substantial. It helps to diagnose with a better view. It will not permanently discolor the organs as the body will absorb it and you will excrete it out via urine. All the MRIs don’t need this contrast agent and they can be done with contrast. If you are prescribed this type of contrast MRI then it will clear out every type of tumor in your body. Mostly people who are suffering with metastatic tumors are prescribed with this MRI Contrast so that doctors can discover the location of all the tumors that are found in body and they are performed often.

Following things will be enhanced after the contrast has been injected in your body.

• Tumors
• Inflammation
• Certain organs’ blood supply
• Blood vessels

With an MRI contrast a typical MRI or other scans are not ordered as this type of test provides all the information necessary. In most cases, work-related injuries, sports injuries and back pain don’t usually call for intravenous contrast exams.

What are the benefits of this test?

Following are the benefits of the MRI Contrast Test.

1. If a contrast has been used during the MRI then no additional scans will be required by the doctor because of the initial MRI’s enhanced nature.
2. The Contrast MRI is the best way of measuring and detecting tumors because the contrast makes it possible for the radiologist to detect even the smallest tumor and they get even the precise information about the location of the tumor.
3. The radiologist can interpret an MRI contrast scan better, since they have more clarity and generate better-quality images.

When should I know the results of this Test?

You will be able to get the test results with in a few hours.

MRI Contrast Test Results range?

 There is no specific range for this test and the doctor or the radiologist will prepare a report of your findings at the end of the test.

What are the Charges for MRI Contrast tests?

The charges for an MRI Contrast can be anywhere from 4400 to 5000 PKR. It depends from where you get the test done. 

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