Please bring along the letter or request form from a physician requesting for the particular examination.

Also, for easy identification, bring along your identity card or passport. This will also assist to expedite the registration process.

For follow-up cases, it is necessary to have previous x-ray films in order for the radiologist to compare and report on the progress of the condition.

If you have downloaded the MRI questionnaire, please bring it along the completed form. This will save you some time at the clinic.

No preparation is required. Avoid makeup and mascara as they often contain metallic elements.

Patients for abdomen studies and cardiac studies are required to fast for at least four hours.

Patients who require sedation will also need to fast for four hours.

At the clinic, you may be asked to change into an x-ray gown and to remove jewellery or ornaments, magnetic cards, analog watches and keys.

For female patients, they will be asked to certify that they are not pregnant. If there is any possibility of pregnancy, this should be brought to the attention of the physician or radiographer or nurse attending to you.

Patients and children who tend to be claustrophobic may be given a sedation to help the patient through the procedure. If this is the case, an accompanying adult need accompany the patient. An informed consent for the sedation will be required.

The MRI examination is not painful. But as in photograph taking, any movement during the procedure will render the image unclear. Patient will be comfortably lying on a padded mattress and must keep still during the scan.

During scanning, intermittent humming and drumming sounds will be heard. Earplugs are available if you require.

The examination may take from 30 minutes to one hour.

After the procedure, patient will be asked to wait while the films are being processed and checked to be in order. This may take another 10 minutes.

When will the results be ready?