Interactive · Patient Education
Understand Your Cervical MRI
Your MRI report is written for doctors. This page is written for you — click any numbered point on the scan to learn what that structure is and why it matters.
Educational images and labels — not a diagnosis, and not your scan. Bring your actual MRI to your visit and Dr. Hobbs will walk through it with you.
How to read the view
Axial = looking down
A cross-section slice through the neck. The grey oval in the middle is your spinal cord, wrapped in a bright ring of fluid.
Sagittal = from the side
A side view of the whole neck — the curve, the discs, and the cord running down the canal in one picture.
Watch the fluid ring
On T2 images, spinal fluid glows white. A continuous bright ring around the cord means room to spare; losing it means the canal is crowded.
Want yours explained, image by image?
Walking patients through their own MRI is part of every consultation.