During the MRI procedure you are entering a magnetic field which could attract metal objects which you may have on you and your clothes or footwear, so you must take all the metal objects from yourselves and your clothes before the procedure starts, emptying your pockets and taking your clothes and footwear off. You are to be given a medical robe and a pair of slippers by the members of the radiology team. The following is considered to fall under the category of metal objects.

Jewelry, watches, credit cards, various earphones

Buckles, braces, hair-pins, metal locks, buttons

Writing kit, spectacles, pocket knives

Piercing

Removable dentures

You must inform the radiology staff if you happen to have any metal objects in your body ( a pacemaker, a hearing aid, post-operative clips, an artificial joint,  any osteosynthetic material after operative fracture recovery,stents in blood vessels,artificial aortic heart valves, metal bits etc. ) All items, mentioned here within can cause obstructions during the examination and some of them are equally counter effective.

As for the instructions concerning consumption of food and beverages before the MRI examination the former depend on the type of examination you have been referred to whilst the MRI examination of musculoskeletal system do not require special attention to your food and beverages consumption.

You are encouraged to continue with your daily regime of medication taking before the MRI examination.

Some of the MRI examinations may require the application of contrast intravenously or by direct application in the joint. You are to be asked a question by the radiology staff regarding your eventual  medication or food allergies. The contrast used for the MRI procedures contains gadolinium which is not prone to causing allergy reactions.

Furthermore, You are to be asked about other medical issues, primarily those affecting  the functioning of the liver and the kidneys.

Women in generative age must inform the members of radiology staff of a possibility of eventual pregnancy. Although the MRI has been in function since the 80’s, up to now there has not been any records of its negative implications on pregnant women nor on their fetus. But because of the high degree of the fetus tissue sensitivity, the MRI examinations are not recommended during the first three months of pregnancy and afterwards only if there are strong medical indications to carry it out.