file.newsgroup.med.58924 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Gordon Banks)
Subject: Re: Too many MRIs?
In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Keith F. Lynch) writes:
>So, why are the scans so expensive, and what can be done to reduce the
>expense? Isn't it just a box with some big magnets, a radio transmitter,
>and an attached PC?
The magnets are huge! Good MRI sets with big (>1.5 Tesla) magnets
cost millions of dollars. Then, the radiologist wants $400 for
reading each scan.
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