Our Center

Midwest Open MRI has been providing services to our patients throughout southern Wisconsin since 1999.  At that time, there were conventional MRI services available in the area, but the open MRI system had not yet arrived in the Madison area.  As a result, a group of medical professionals and concerned citizens financed the Hitachi Airis II Open MRI System, and Midwest Open MRI became the first in the area to specialize in providing open MRI services.  We are an independent, free-standing clinic that is not directly associated with a hospital or other clinic.

Our facility provides both the technical and the professional services.  Our scans are interpreted by board certified Radiologists who have numerous years of experience in reading MRI films.

Midwest Open MRI was the first free-standing MRI facility in Madison to be accredited by the American College of Radiology (ACR).  This means that since January 2001, our facility has met and continues to meet the highest standards required of this national accrediting organization.

Additional Facts

• Patients may normally be scheduled within one week; same day appointments are accepted if schedule permits.

• Physicians may request that patients be given a set of films to take to follow-up appointments; we maintain a set of films on file.

• Reports are typically faxed to the referring physician with 24 hours.

• Studies include procedures with contrast and without contrast.

• Magnetic resonance angiogram (MRA) of the carotids and Circle of Willis are also performed.

• Fat and water separation software was added to the system in 2004.