After earning his MD from the Northeastern Ohio Universities, Dr. Jim Gray entered a residency in diagnostic radiology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. As a radiologist with West Florida Radiology, Jim Gray, MD, works alongside a multidisciplinary team of medical doctors to screen for systemic conditions like cancer.
Oncologists and other cancer specialists use diagnostic imaging such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to screen and diagnose different types of cancers. MRIs generate images of organs and other soft body tissues using powerful magnets. Since MRIs are one of the few diagnostic imaging tests that do not use radiation, it is often ordered for vulnerable people, including pregnant women in at least the second trimester.
The patient may ingest or be injected with a contrasting substance that will help sharpen the resulting image. MRIs can help doctors distinguish between benign and malignant tumors, observe the spread of advanced cancers, and uncover smaller tumors in difficult-to-explore areas such as the spinal cord and brain.
