Koi, asked my neuro if I could have ONLY contrast cause they're the images I use for seeing lesions & w/o images don't do much for me and, why pay extra and spend extra time if w/o doesn't help me much? He told me contrast shows active lesions, w/o shows old. Don't take that as gospel cause I didn't research it. Certainly demand w & w/o if you're not allergic to dye.

My avatar (look left) IS however made from w/o contrast slices since they only thin sliced w/o. I was excited to get my 2013 MR last week thin sliced w w/o contrast but the typical bleep'n know it all tech said "we follow MS protocol", which turned out to be regular slices. Called asking if they forgot to put thin slice series on cd (as they have in past) and she said no. Dr has to call, they went by script. I asked "so what should he write? thinner slices?" Thin slice boxes were checked, guess that wasn't clear enough.