Columnist Desiree Lama thought that the worst of her MRI experiences was behind her. Not so, she learned during a recent ...

Scientists believe they may have found the reason why some people get so sick the contrast dye you get before an MRI.

Nephrogenic systemic fibrosis can cause a thickening and hardening of the skin, heart and lungs—and cause painful contracting of the joints.

This is the same sort of scan that a doctor might use to take a peek inside your abdomen or chest ... MRI systems use magnetic fields and radio waves to generate images. Sometimes, contrast ...

Chest pains, heart flutters ... create images -- so certain people cannot have an MRI, like those who wear a pacemaker or defibrillator. The contrast medium is not iodine-based, so there are ...

"The worst disease caused by MRI contrast agents is nephrogenic systemic fibrosis," he said. "People have succumbed after just a single dose." The condition can cause a thickening and hardening of ...

or exogenously added contrast agents, to emit radiowaves that are detected and used to generate two and three-dimensional images of a living subject in the MRI scanner.