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Old 01-14-2018, 02:01 PM
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Originally Posted by sallybowron View Post
Lake Medical in the Sharon Morse Building
The machine at Sharon Morse is not an "open" MRI but a wide bore MRI.

I cannot go into a regular MRI tube....I used to go to Ocala for a true open MRI....I now go to Sharon Morse...the wide bore machine is very tolerable for folks like me.

Some folks at Lake Medical Imaging do refer to this machine as open.....by comparison to the cigar tube...they are correct!!