These pictures are for you to print and add to your social story.
Modle Scanner
Reception/waiting room
Head Coil
Ankle coil
Body Coil
Knee Coil
Wrist coil
MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
These photos show a patient having a scan in our newly refurbished department.
Photos of Clarendon wing MRI department
This patient had a liver scan.
Some scans require contrast dye, sometimes referred to as ‘special picture medicine’. This dye is inserted through a cannula.
MRI Sounds
Some MRI scans require breath holds.
In this film Rachelle helps you practice holding your breath when you are having a MRI scan.
Breathing instructions during a bowel scan
The children are required to hold their breath at certain points. An automated instruction is sometimes used or the radiographer will verbally give the
instructions and let them know for how many seconds they are required to hold their breath.
This is the breathing instructions which patients may hear through the headphones for certain scans 1
This is the breathing instructions which patients may hear through the headphones for certain scans 2
Here are a few games to play at home to practice keeping still.
Musical statues Sleeping lions Making a den and laying down in it. Quiet statues