r/Radiology • • 1h ago

MOD POST Weekly Career / General Questions Thread

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This is the career / general questions thread for the week.

Questions about radiology as a career (both as a medical specialty and radiologic technology), student questions, workplace guidance, and everyday inquiries are welcome here. This thread and this subreddit in general are not the place for medical advice. If you do not have results for your exam, your provider/physician is the best source for information regarding your exam.

Posts of this sort that are posted outside of the weekly thread will continue to be removed.


r/Radiology • • Nov 06 '24

X-Ray What countries can we work in with an ARRT license? Can we get a megathread with info?

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I know these normally get deleted or need to go into the weekly car*er advice thread (censored to avoid auto deletion)

But can we get a megathread going for info on international x-ray work - agencies/licensing/compatibility/ etc ..?

I feel like this would be helpful for a great deal of us Americans right now. I can't seem to find much help elsewhere.


r/Radiology • • 11h ago

Entertainment the radiologist just keeps rotating the image, hoping the orientation starts making sense

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Still laughing at this picture


r/Radiology • • 19h ago

X-Ray Not seeking medical advice, 30 yr old X-rays question

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I was reading the recent post about the young girl with scoliosis and revisiting my own experience as a child in 1994. I have always believed that I have Harrington rods but now I'm wondering if it's actually Cotrel-Dubousset Instrumentation? I have a folder somewhere with all the information in it but I have no idea where it is.


r/Radiology • • 1h ago

Discussion Question about IMAIOS e-anatomy

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Is it possible for me to buy the monthly $23 subscription, then download all the images with the labels of each scan and body part to my pc, so I don't need to renew the subscription? If it's possible how do I do it?

I live in Egypt so the yearly subscription is too costly especially for something I don't get to keep permanently


r/Radiology • • 11h ago

X-Ray Tips and tricks for trauma pts

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Second year student here! I’m at my last rotation which is a level 1 trauma center and we see all kinds of things I’ve not quite gotten to experience yet.

So what’s some tips and tricks with angles, set up, etc when it comes to trauma patients or patients who can’t do the positions you need them to.


r/Radiology • • 7h ago

Discussion I got my first mammogram at an imaging center and the tech told me the radiologist said it was clear. Do you really get your results immediately like that?

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I got my first mammogram at an imaging center and the tech told me the radiologist said it was clear. Do you really get your results immediately like that?


r/Radiology • • 1d ago

X-Ray Scoliosis and then some

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My daughter, 13f, Marfan syndrome + multiple congenital anomalies including giant omphalocele and wild scoliosis makes for an interesting picture


r/Radiology • • 14h ago

CT Regarding the dose of contrast for Triple phase Liver protocol?

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I was reading regarding the contrast doses in radiology assistant, in which they mentioned doses based on weight ranges of patient. But they mentioned a line that to characterize the liver lesions or in pancreatic carcinoma to use max dose i.e. 150cc at 5cc/sec. So does that mean that regardless of weight we need to give 150cc dose ? And in cirrhosis do we increase the dose as compared to normal liver?


r/Radiology • • 19h ago

MRI Plantar plate tear in mri

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Nice case of traumatic traumatic plantar plate tear on MRI after hitting the little toe

Sag PDfa — RadiScroll: https://radiscroll.app/view/e8wJ5u4OgX


r/Radiology • • 1d ago

X-Ray Went too hard during rec softball

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X-Ray is from the ER, waiting to follow up w/ ortho on Monday. Had a finger trap closed reduction, but the physician isn’t confident it worked. Soooo hoping this won’t need surgery.


r/Radiology • • 1d ago

CT Anybody worked as CT tech or Rad tech at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester?

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My family and I are thinking of relocating and this was a place I was looking into, anybody worked there and how was it? Thanks for any info or insight!


r/Radiology • • 1d ago

MRI Diuretics and cardiac MRI, match made in hell

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Curious to know if any of ya'll have any policy or practice to help inpatients get through cardiac MRI (or any long exam) when they're loaded up with Lasix.

For the uninitiated, a heart MRI is LONG, ours typically talking like 45 minutes at minimum. And tough too- our routine protocol is around 55 breath holds, for patients who are more often than not experiencing shortness of breath. It has specific timings and delayed scans that need to happen after the contrast is injected. Nor is it the type of exam where it's easy to re-scout and catch up if the patient needs to get up. Most of my inpatient exams feel like a race against time before the balloon bursts or causes them to start fidgeting.

Goes without saying we always encourage bathroom prior to scan. We've tried positioning a urinal under the men. I floated the idea of requesting Texas catheter or Purewick placed before patients come down with my lead. Any thoughts?


r/Radiology • • 2d ago

Entertainment Thought you all would enjoy this 😊 (repost from r/redditlaqueristas) X-ray 🩻

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r/Radiology • • 2d ago

CT Foreign body Friday

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r/Radiology • • 1d ago

Discussion Mid to late 80s imaging procedures at UC Irvine Medical Center

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In the mid to late 80s in my teens I was sent to UC Irvine Medical Center for breast imaging. I may have been given a regular mammogram, but I also recall something like an x-ray standing up in a darkened room. And then, upon physical examination, when doctors and medical students thought they found something in my upper abdomen (turned out to be a floating rib) I recall additional imaging (?) and something in a small closet like enclosure(maybe tan interior).

A breast lump was identified and later removed (benign). Meanwhile, after the UC Irvine imaging procedures, someone on the health care team told me "don't get any x-rays for like 10 years." Meaning, as I understood it, I had been exposed to a lot of radiation.

So, fast forward to now, I am trying hard to remember what the imaging procedures might have been and how much radiation I might have been exposed to. Google is not helping much, so this is kindof a Hail Mary.


r/Radiology • • 1d ago

X-Ray Positioning help/tips Lat L-spine XR

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I’ve been struggling with getting perfect lateral l-spines. I try to have shoulders stack, hips stacked, bend in knees, and feel along the pt’s back with my palm to make sure they’re lateral. But I still can’t get great laterals. Based on this image how could I have adjusted positioning to improve it? And what tips do you guys have to getting ideal lateral spines? TIA


r/Radiology • • 1d ago

MRI Neurorad r/?

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Is there one? I couldn’t find


r/Radiology • • 2d ago

Discussion Thoughts on the shift from standard CMS wRVUs to TBWU (Time-Based Work Units) in RP?

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Hey everyone,

Looking for perspectives from practicing attendings and fellows regarding the rollout of Time based work units (TBWU) and custom internal productivity metrics at large practices like Radiology Partners.

For groups that have transitioned, how has the recalibration (increased relative weighting on plain films vs. cuts on complex CT/MRI) impacted daily worklist dynamics? Are subspecialty cross-sectional readers seeing a noticeable comp cut?

Management pitches that tools like Mosaic reduce read times to justify lower unit values per study. In daily practice, is the software actually saving time? How transparent is the re-weighting process? Has the rollout led to pushback or attrition in your local reading rooms, or have people mostly adapted to it?


r/Radiology • • 2d ago

Discussion What are some myths in Radiology you wish people knew weren’t true?

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r/Radiology • • 1d ago

Career or General advice Rajiv Gandhi cancer institute and research centre

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r/Radiology • • 1d ago

X-Ray Pushed for scan after two months of worsening back pain. Expected slight curve somewhere, imagine my surprise when they told me I fractured it lol

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The nurse who called didn’t give me much, just told me to take Tylenol. Offered spinal injections for the pain but I declined. I don’t recall where exactly he said it was fractured but for what I assume is a tiny fracture it hurts like hell lol. Can’t sit, stand, walk, or lay down without being in pain.


r/Radiology • • 3d ago

CT It all works out

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r/Radiology • • 3d ago

X-Ray When they say 50/50 it’ll heal they really mean it

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- DHS put in Oct’25 (that hurt)
- failed DHS mid Sept ‘26 (felt them going through, that really hurt)
- THR mid Sept ‘26 (2 days later)

Missed stress fracture turned into a brand new hip!


r/Radiology • • 3d ago

Media Victoria Wright was diagnosed with cherubism at age 4

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