MRI or CT: what’s the difference, and when does your doctor order each
Which one is for the lungs and which for the spine, how much radiation is involved, and what is possible in pregnancy.
Zarifa Mehdiyeva · · 4 min read
Zarifa Mehdiyeva
Radiologist and ultrasound specialist
Senior consultant
- Experience
- 36 years in practice, since 1990
- Languages
- Azerbaijani, Russian
- Department
- Radiology and ultrasound
- Consultation
- 40 ₼
About the doctor
A radiologist and ultrasound specialist with 36 years in practice. She does ultrasound at all three branches, reports on mammograms and MRIs, and gives second opinions on images from other clinics.
Patients most often come about
- Ultrasound
- Mammography
- MRI and CT reports
- Second opinions
Education
- 1982–1988Medical institute, Baku: general medicine
- 1988–1990Clinical residency in radiology, Baku