RE:RE:RE:RE:Clinical trial at Duke UniversitytheNorm wrote: MRI's are very expensive with testing involving moving a patient through a spinning magnet which is very loud. It's like being put into an earthquake, bin der, don dat. Causes the patient anxiety whereas ECHO involves a little lube and a warm massage with the scanning instrument.
VMS works on practically every ultrasound across the globe not just VPT's manufactured machines, so it's easy to get an ECHO done. MRI's are booked months in advance and takes much longer for procedure which bills way higher to pay off multi million cost of MRI machines.
MRIs are expensive, noisy, and time consuming.
Ultrasound is none of the above.
Still MRIs are the gold standard for many types of imaging-and cardiologists and surgeios are sold on the technology, not to mention the radiologists and the industrial complex that sells and maintains them.
Not sure if a 100 person open label study would move the needle.
Will be interesting to see, however.