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Reverse Imaging Technique in a Car Accident Case
You can end up receiving an MRI to check if your injury was the result of someone else’s carelessness in car accident cases. We’ll briefly discuss MRIs before moving on to how they affect the settlement value of your case.
Michael Levites from Juris Q Legal Network interviews personal injury attorney Herbert F Lawrence to educate audiences about what goes behind the scenes of a personal injury cases.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging: What Is It?
A magnetic field and radio wave energy pulses are used in the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exam to create images of the organs and other internal structures in your body.
Why would you order an MRI in a case involving personal injury?
In a number of situations, an MRI reveals distinct details about bodily structures that can also be seen using an X-ray, CT scan, or ultrasound. Issues that cannot be noticed using other imaging techniques may be revealed by an MRI.
What do experts say?
Here’s what Herbert F. Lawrence had to say when he was asked how to show the jury about the impact of the car accident and describe what the reverse imaging procedure is, and how it helps you get proper compensation for your clients.
“All right, we only can use reverse imaging in cases where the operation by the doctor has taken metallic objects screws, actually bolts, sometimes, sometimes wires to insert into a human being.”
He further explains, “When we take the MRI, the MRI barely shows the metallic objects, it’s very difficult for anyone other than a doctor to point out what was inserted. So what we’ve done is we’ve taken the actual MRI films to a particular photographic studio.
They’ve done a process where they reverse the image. And it doesn’t change anything about the truth and veracity of the image is correct. The size and the objects are portrayed, though so much differently than metal and anything that was inserted into the backbone that’s permanent, will show up almost as if it’s glowing. And previously, as all other attorneys that I’ve ever seen, use the MRIs.
You can’t you can hardly see anything with it. It actually almost shines out. Anyone looking at the reverse picture of the MRI can clearly see the metallic objects that are in the backbone and wherever they may have been inserted.”
Now, why would a personal injury attorney go to that extent for reverse imaging? What is the core purpose?
“It’s actually more than that, because when we’ve shown it to two people that have nothing to do with the case, in other words like a jury, right, and we asked them to look at, almost invariably, they guess. Now, when you get a jury to consider a person’s injury, and they guess, the guess is certainly something that’s going to be consequential.”
Here’s how the game changes, “When the original MRI displays, the metallic objects, you can hardly see it. So there is very little effect to the jury, when we do the reverse imaging, they gasped. So that tells you the difference in effect.”
When the jury understand and visualizes, you automatically get greater compensation value.
For more insights you can check the full interview by Michael Levites here: https://youtu.be/yLPL8NrFORE.