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We at the King’s College London’s Imaging Clinical Research Facility are proud of our state-of-the-art facilities, world leading expertise and innovation driven industrial collaborations to produce world class research and tangible improvements in patient outcomes. Putting the patient at ease is the first step of patient care. With the world’s very first and only 80 cm patient bore, MAGNETOM Free.Max MRI Scanner, we can break barriers in patient comfort and accessibility – making the experience a realistic option for claustrophobic, anxious, and more corpulent patients.

This page is for ‘self-paying’ private patients to make payments for their MRI scans using our new and the UK’s one and only Siemens Magnetom Free.Max MRI Scanner.

This is a specialist MRI scanning service, provided by the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences (BMEIS), King’s College London, in collaboration with our colleagues within Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. Our Advanced MRI Centre is based on the lower ground floor of North Wing at St. Thomas’ Hospital, Westminster Bridge Road, SE1 7EH.

Booking an MRI Scan

To book an MRI scan, please send a referral or clinical letter from your Consultant or a private Physician to [email protected] copying [email protected], the Superintendent Radiographer. We will then ask one of our Radiologist colleagues to vet and protocol your referral for the scan to be performed. Only once your referral has been vetted and protocolled, would we be able to accept your referral. There are times that we won’t be able to accept your referral, for instance if the scan protocol is unavailable, or if our Radiologist believes that the referral is not justifiable for clinical reasons.

Once the referral has been accepted, we will get in touch with you to organise a provisional appointment that is mutually convenient to you and clinical team. You will be provided with the link to this web page, where you will make the payment for the scan.

To make the payment for the scan, please select one of the below options and click 'add to basket’. You will then be asked to provide contact details for yourself and your consultant before proceeding to make the payment. We will get an automatic confirmation once the payment has gone through our systems. We will then send you further confirmation of your appointment and any relevant patient information via email or by post depending on your preference.

Scans we provide (patients over 19 years old)

· MRI scan for one area / region without contrast - £449

· MRI scan for one area / region pre and post contrast - £564

· MRI scan for two areas / regions without contrast - £673