Scheduling An Appointment Redwood City Stanford Hospital Stanford Medicine Outpatient Center 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA 94305 To schedule an appointment at any of our 450 Broadway Pavilion B, Redwood City, CA 94063 five imaging locations, please call: Patient Admitting Registration – First Floor Services: MRI, CT, Diagnostic X-Ray, US, Bone Density Services: Diagnostic X-Ray, Cath Lab, IR, CT, US, & Stanford Radiology Scheduling Center Directions: From South (San Jose)-Take US-101 North GI Phone: 650-723-6855 Fax: 650-723-6036 toward San Francisco. Exit CA-84/Woodside Road West (18 MRI Service/Registration – Ground Floor Magnetic miles). Take Woodside Road to Broadway Street (.7 mile). Appointments are available Monday thru Saturday. Turn left on Broadway Street. Stanford Medicine Outpatient Nuclear Medicine & PET-CT Service Registration – Center will be on the left (.6 mile). 2nd Floor H2200 Directly above the Cafeteria Resonance For information on: From North (San Francisco)- Take US-101 South toward Blake Wilbur Outpatient Clinic

Magnetic Resonance Imaging-MRI, Patient San Jose. Exit CA-84/ Woodside Road West (25 > 900 Blake Wilbur Drive, Stanford, CA 94305 Imaging-MRI Prep Instructions or Maps & Directions, go SFO miles). Take Woodside Patient420 Registration – Ground Floor http://Stanfordhospital.org/MRI BAYSHORE FWY . 101 BROADWAY to: Road to Broadway Street VETERANS BLVD. Services: Diagnostic X-Ray, CT, US, MRI and Stanford Medicine Imaging (.3 mile). Turn left on 450 Mammography Redwood Broadway Street. Stanford City BROADWAY Medicine Outpatient Advanced Medicine Center WOODSIDE RD. Center will be on the left 84 MIDDLEFIELD RD. 875 Blake Wilbur Drive, Stanford, CA 94305 (.6 mile). Patient Registration – First Floor CC 1227 Services: Diagnostic X-Ray and Mammography Palo Alto Stanford Medicine Imaging Center Stanford Hospital, Blake Wilbur Outpatient Clinic 451 Sherman Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94306 and Advanced Medicine Center

Services: MRI and CT Directions: From 280 Exit Page Mill Road East and turn Left/North on El Camino Real. Drive 3 blocks and turn right on Sherman Avenue , just after the Olive Garden Restaurant. From 101 Exit Oregon Expressway West and turn Right/ North on El Camino Real. Drive 3 blocks and turn right on Sherman Avenue , just after the Olive Garden Restaurant. Valet parking is available. Public parking is also available in lots located opposite the center and along Sherman Avenue.

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SHERMAN AVE.ASH ST. Your appointment is scheduled for: 451 Date: GRANT AVE. Information for Patients Sun Mon Tue Wed Thur Fri Sat SHERIDAN AVE. CALIFORNIA AVE. 280 Time: PAGE MILL RD. and Families What is a MRI Scan? a window during the MRI scan; however, your ■ Aneurysm clips BREAST SCAN: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) caregiver will be able to see, hear, and speak with ■ Artificial or prosthetic limbs or joints, such as Please schedule within 7-12 days of your A magnetic resonance (REZ-oh-nans) imaging you at all times. an artificial knee joint menstrual cycle. If the request is urgent, this scan is usually called an MRI. An MRI does ■ Bullets or pieces of shrapnel preparation will not be required. not use radiation (X-rays) and is a noninvasive You must lie very still during the scan. If you ■ Cochlear (ear) implants medical test or examination. The MRI ma- move, the MRI scan pictures may not be clear. ■ Heart pacemaker CREATININE BLOOD TEST: chine uses a large magnet and a computer to Your primary care physician may order you a ■ Implanted cardiac defibrillator This is required within 30 days prior to the take pictures of the inside of your body. Each mild sedative if you are claustrophobic (afraid of ■ Implanted IV ports MRI examination for the following people: picture or “slice” shows only a few layers of closed spaces), have a hard time staying still, or ■ Implanted spinal stimulator ■ Patients who are age 60 years or older body tissue at a time. The pictures can then have chronic pain. You will hear very loud bang- ■ Insulin pump ■ Patients who are diabetic (insulin and non- be examined on a computer monitor. Pictures ing noises during the series of scans. The noise is ■ Certain intrauterine devices or “IUDs” insulin dependent types) taken this way may help caregivers find and caused by the magnets moving. You will be given ■ Pieces of metal fragments in your eyes from ■ Patients who have a history of kidney see problems in your body more easily. The earplugs or ear muffs to help soften the noise of welding insufficiency/kidney masses/single kidney scan usually takes between 15 to 90 minutes. the MRI machine. ■ Medication patch: A medication patch is also If you have this test done at an outside Including the scan, the total examination time called a “transdermal” or “skin” patch. Some facility, it is your responsibility to obtain usually takes between 1.5 to 3 hours. Some MRI examinations require the administra- medication patches may have metal in or on tion of intravenous contrast material to help your them. Examples of medication patches are nic- a copy of the result and bring it to the body part show up better in the pictures. The otine, birth control, and nitroglycerin patches. appointment with you. contrast material is put through an intravenous ■ Some metal pins, plates, screws, or surgical line (IV) started in a vein in your hand or arm. staples: In most cases, these things will not EATING: cause a problem with an MRI. If you are getting intravenous contrast How Should I Prepare for My MRI material, which helps your body part show up better in the MRI pictures, or sedative (SED- Exam? ah-tiv) medicine during the examination, you You should inform your caregiver if you have may be asked to not eat solid food for 4 to 8 food allergies, drug allergies, hay fever, hives, or hours before the examination. allergic asthma. Your caregiver should also know if you have any serious health problems, and PREP INSTRUCTIONS: what surgeries you have undergone. Women For Patient Prep Instructions, go to: What Will Happen during the MRI should always inform their physician or technol- http://Stanfordhospital.org/MRI Examination? ogist if there is any possibility they are pregnant. A closed MRI machine is large and looks like a We will not perform an MRI on a patient during hollow, cylinder-shaped tube surrounded the first trimester (the first 3 months) of preg- by a circular magnet. You will be asked to nancy. If you are breastfeeding at the time of the change into a hospital gown and to remove examination, you should ask your technologist all jewelry, earrings, piercings, or other metal how to proceed. objects. Caregivers will help you lie on a move- METAL: able examination table that slides into the cen- You should not have an MRI if you have any- CHECK IN: Do not wear any jewelry including rings, ter of the magnet. The body part being tested thing in your body that a magnet attracts. Please arrive 30 minutes before your scheduled earrings, necklaces, or watches. Take off any may be kept in place with a cradle or straps to Items that may interfere with your having an appointment and allow 1.5 to 3 hours for the clothing that has metal hooks, buttons, zippers, hold it very still. Your caregiver will sit behind MRI include: exam process. or other metal items on it.