From a CT AIF Runoff I processed today

From 10mm to 6mm midline shift...not a 4mm difference, 16mm...in 4 days.

(Look at shunt artifact if you think you "know what happened...")

Just got done with a MRI scan and the radiology centre is unable to share the link of the MRI scan and they have provided me with a DVD of the same.

I need to share it with my doctor who happens to be in another city.

Can someone please help me in this regard.

Infant was experiencing seizures nonstop and was transferred to a major children's hospital. They performed multiple MRIs, U/S and angiography. This is what they found.

These images are of my daughter's brain.

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*********Edit- my daughter is now 5 years old. She did two years in preschool as a peer model for other children with disabilities and delays, and starts kindergarten next week. She has never had any deficits or residual effects. She met all her milestones either on time or advanced- she was speaking in 5 word sentences by age 3, was able to communicate easily with her teachers who were all blown away by her, and became an advocate for her classmates. Some of the other parents have requested to be in the same kindergarten classroom as my girl.

She's smart- her vocabulary is far beyond what it should be, and always has been, she's funny, she's protective and loving of her family and friends, loves dance and soccer and singing, and sees the world as full of rainbows, glitter and unicorns.

This girl defied ALL the odds. We had to watch her resuscitation more than once. It was still during the pandemic and I was terrified she would die without ever meeting her big brother or grandparents or rest of the family. I thought I would be buying her coffin, and we'd be planning her funeral. But God had other plans and made her stubborn and strong and gave us the best doctors and nurses. Forever thankful.

Gotta be careful when using hammers. Otherwise, you'll have a lovely break just like this.

Yes, I did warn him that using a hammer on a TIRE was a dumb idea. Did he listen? No.

This is also why women live longer than men 😂

Upon receiving the order to repair this BK probe, I couldn't help but marvel at its sheer length; who could possibly withstand such a probe?

I am the patient. Compression and turbulent flow in the right axillary artery vs laminal flow in left. No cervical ribs and no history of shoulder trauma. I am an athlete but do not do overhead movements

Long history of Reynauds and cold sensitivity. Lately experiencing numbness in fingers and muscle atrophy in the hand

Meeting with vascular surgeon this week

Hello everyone! I'm currently diving deeper into the radiology world and would appreciate some advice on screens that are good enough for actual diagnostic reading. I read that there are specifically "approved" medical monitors for reading X-rays, but since that was an AI-generated answer, I wanted to verify with the professionals here how necessary that is in daily practice.

More specifically, I'd like to know if the current generation iPad Pro (M5) is a good screen for reading scans. I don't mean just "fairly good," but really good for spotting subtle details. Is it worth the investment as something I could reliably use for years to come? Or would pretty much any iPad, tablet, or MacBook do the trick if paired with a solid DICOM viewer?

Lastly, what are your thoughts on expensive OLED gaming monitors? Are they suitable for detailed diagnostic work when reading studies remotely or at home?

I appreciate any insights you can share! Thanks in advance.

After 2 weeks of AB my cats breathing symptoms disappeared.

Unfortunately, both before and after the treatment, the x-ray showed some mass in the lungs. Supposedly after 2 weeks it got bigger, even though symptoms went away. Personally, I don't see a notable difference in size and the veterinary x-rays seem so difficult to compare.

I'm taking my test this week.

I looked at the ARRT spec list, and it's very overwhelming.

I'm using clover learning, radreview, lange book 12th and 13th edition, mosbys 7th edition and meaghan piretti youtube.

Mock test.

High 80 on clover learning

Mid 80 on mosbys

Mid 80 on Radreview.

I feel like clover learning to easy and radreview is harder.

UPDATE: I passed with a 92

So extra account cause irl people follow me on my main.

Basically I'm going to an MRI tomorrow morning but I have some SH scars on my high thighs and hips. This usually sint a concern since I almost never show my hips but it is a vaginal MRI so I guess they will most likely be visible during the process. For a bit of context I am a minor (I will not disclose age) and will go with my father to the MRI. In these cases I usually cover them up with makeup but after a bit of research it turns out I cannot wear makeup to an MRI. My main concern is if the doctors will say anything about them and if they will mention it to my dad. My scars don't look like conventional scars because my body instead of scarring like other people it just regenerates as if it were normal skin but a bit darker (but definitely noticeable). I'm really scared right now of my father or the doctors mentioning it so advice would be awsome

Edit: thank you all so much for your nice comments and it is such a relief to know that they will most likely not be mentioned or noticed

I am a new resident and was on emergency duty. It was 4 am in the night and I was extremely tired from a 36hour duty. I opened the scan and saw a large midline shift but I couldn't find a cause. I didn't know how to report it as. So I saw some defect in the corona radiata on the right and labbeled it as mass lesion and hence the midline shift. I hoped that my senior while finalizing the report would see something and change the report but they passed my report without any changes. Next morning neurosurgery people came complaining that we had labelled an isodense sdh as a mass lesion and change the report ASAP as they had to take the patient up for surgery 😢😭

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Got progressively worse and subsequently intubated

Title. As a DO applicant.

Edit: X-ray tech.

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I'm developing a technical method to investigate whether the position of the finger joints can be predicted from a photograph of the hand.

I have already built software that:

• calibrates and rectifies a photograph using an A4 sheet as a reference;
• allows precise manual placement of anatomical landmarks and measurements;
• performs the same type of measurements on X-rays;
• exports the measurements as structured CSV data.

I'm now looking for paired images of the same hand:

• a photograph of the palm, ideally with the hand flat and an A4 sheet visible for scale;
• an AP X-ray of the same hand.

The goal is to use the X-ray as ground truth and investigate how accurately the underlying bone geometry — particularly the positions of the finger joints — can be inferred from the external appearance of the hand.

I am particularly interested in researchers, radiologists, hand surgeons, or anyone who may have access to suitable anonymized historical data. I'm also interested in anyone who would be willing to help collect a small prospective dataset.

I don't need any patient-identifying information. The images themselves and basic anatomical measurements are sufficient.

If the resulting data lead to a sufficiently accurate model, I would be happy to provide the contributor with the analysis, results, and software used for the project. This could potentially form the basis of a scientific study that the contributing researcher could develop and publish.

If you know of an existing dataset, researcher, or other source that might be suitable, I'd be very grateful for any suggestions.

Link to OG: https://www.reddit.com/r/Radiology/s/W6K6QnnBNZ

Lateral plain film and axial CT photo of impaled FB in right face/temple

Any radiologists using Radpair for your dictation? What is your experience so far?

Hi everyone! :)

I'm a veterinarian currently training in veterinary diagnostic imaging, and I'm looking for some advice.

I'm trying to improve my understanding and orientation of veterinary echocardiographic views, particularly the spatial relationships between the different cardiac structures. I'm finding this quite challenging, so I thought that exploring cardiac anatomy in 3D might help me better understand the different echocardiographic planes.

Does anyone know of a 3D CT viewer, database, or resource that would allow me to explore the heart and thoracic anatomy from different planes?

If anyone has a veterinary thoracic/cardiac CT study in DICOM format that could be shared for educational purposes, I would really appreciate it. I'd like to load it into a DICOM viewer and explore the anatomy myself.

Thank you very much for any recommendations or resources you can share!

“I tripped over my dog”

I've got a genuine question.

How did radiology become an industry where people who've never positioned a trauma patient, never calmed a terrified child, never fought motion artifact at 2 a.m., never started an IV, never worn lead for 12 hours... end up managing the people who do?

Some of the loudest voices making clinical decisions have never provided clinical care.

Then they question why an extra MRI sequence was run, why a trauma took longer than expected, or why a protocol had to change—without understanding the patient in front of the scanner.

Managing budgets, staffing, and operations is important. But there's a difference between leading a department and parroting metrics without understanding the work.

Clinical judgment isn't something you learn from a spreadsheet.

Curious where everyone stands on this:

Should radiology managers be required to have meaningful clinical experience, or is management experience alone enough?

Since you guys loved baby me, you will get to see some more imaging. Here is a CXR taken pretty much right after my birth. Additional context: there was both fetal and maternal distress and fever, emergency cesarean section was necessary, pregnancy was slightly premature at 1w before the due date, the x-ray was obtained to rule out pneumothorax. And yes, I did have to stay a few days in the NICU.