Mrs Smitty, I started writing this hours ago and thought I sent it but Im sorry to say it was just sitting here unsent.

Usually OC patients get checked with CT and PET/CT scans. At least I have and many of the patients Ive talked to over the years have as well. Your question is not as easy as it sounds. A grain of rice is so very tiny to pick out in an area bigger than your fist. Without a medical background I simply dont have the education, training and years of practice etc to be able to even make a guess. As we both know, this is much too serious to take a guess at. From my understanding, its not only the test, its also the tech giving the test, the tech reading the test and there could be even another who creates the lab report. Im very sorry but I do not know if an MRI would be the right exam for you.

This link should be helpful to you in learning about how to diagnose OC.

OCF Main Site --- Understanding/Diagnosis