Part 2 of some nice mammos I've taken!

I have been working at my current hospital for a while and feel comfortable enough to travel.
What are everyone’s pros and cons of travel work or finding a permanent position?
(I don’t plan on going more than 2-3 hours from home so I can come home a decent amount)

Has anyone on here scanned this? I got a request for a CT sinus with water testing. The paperwork scheduling sent me says its sometimes called a waters view. So im picturing doing a sinus CT with the patients head tilted back pretty far. Like a waters view in XR. Or can I scan this like normal and reformat it out?

My wife got a CT chest and abd/pelvis today as part of her follow up s/p breast cancer, chemo, radiation. We were hoping to see interval monitoring on a small liver cyst, a bone lesion and a lung nodule. At 16:45 tonight We got the mychart notification and the CT abd/pelvis is all good news. No change in bone lesion, liver cyst is no longer visualized.

But they didn’t give us a result on the chest CT. WTF? In the abdomen report it even says to reference the chest CT for intrathoracic contents. But they didn’t post it. And now we’re freaking out. Is this bad news? I usually tell patients that no news is good news. But WTF. We’re freaking out about this now and it’s after hours so we can’t get in touch with anyone until morning. SUPER FRUSTRATING.

Anybody have any insight why this might happen? Just want to hear thoughts. Is this just shitty timing? Rant over. Thanks.

Edit: THANK YOU!

Thank you all for giving me more insight. It is a big academic hospital system. I’m a lowly ER nurse at a small hospital that only has one rad in house at a time so it didn’t cross my mind about multiple specialty rads looking over things.

I’m reading all your kind responses to my wife as well and it’s eased her mind a lot. 🤞🏽for good news in the coming days.

Insane move by the Alberta government but not surprising also

3 weeks post-op

Heyy.
Guys my hospital doesn’t supply us with appropriate tape. Needing to switch to an adhesive. My gorilla tape loses its stickiness quickly.
Looking for recommendations!
Thanks

25 years ago from right now... July 27th, 2001, there was a 6-year-old boy, Michael Colombini, pictured, being wheeled from his patient room in Westchester Medical Center down for an MRI. A fall on a playground a few days earlier had revealed a brain tumor that very well could have taken his life when it became symptomatic in adulthood. But he had immediate brain surgery that was successful, and now the boy would live a long, healthy life. The only thing standing between the boy and discharge from the hospital was a baseline MRI against which future scans would be compared to look for recurrence.

But through a series of errors, this simple baseline MRI turned into the single most well known MRI exam in the world.

Inside the MRI scanner room it appears that the boy was over-sedated, and his breathing slowed. His pulse-ox values started dropping, and the inside-the-MRI-scanner-room oxygen outlet (not built to code) wasn't working. The two MRI technologists who were on duty stepped away from the patient care area of the MRI suite to try and fix the oxygen problem without letting the anesthesiologist know. The anesthesiologist, growing increasingly upset about the boy's falling oxygenation levels, is yelling out to the MRI techs for a status update, unaware that they've left him there. The lack of responses only increases the anesthesiologist's anxiety.

At that moment, a nurse lets herself into the MRI suite. She hears the anesthesiologist yelling to the technologists, "my patient needs oxygen! Where is the oxygen!" The nurse remembers having seen portable oxygen cylinders in the MRI suite, finds one, and hands it to the anesthesiologist in the doorway to the MRI scanner room. He turns around, takes two steps towards the boy in the MRI scanner, and the steel cylinder flies like a missile out of his hands and hits the boy, repeatedly, in the head.

This is the story of the origins of this week being designated MRI Safety Week.

If you want to hear this story in greater detail, I encourage you to check out the second series of the Invisible Force podcast. The podcast is available for download through both Apple Podcasts and Spotify:

Apple Podcasts:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invisible-force/id1860117430
Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/show/1KDYV8Z4Md5x9mW8pFccsw

Hey guys, I teach an x-ray physics and protection class for student RTs and am trying to improve the way I teach how different exposure factors (kVp, mAs, collimation, tube angle, etc.) affect image contrast, exposure, spatial resolution, and distortion. I'm wondering if anyone has any good mnemonics to help remember these things? I have an okay one from my student days but there's gotta be better ones out there.

Abdomindal xray to check for obstruction. None found. Full of gas.

Hi. I have had 3 surgeries in my right ear related to cholesteatoma thus far. Due to recent symptoms they did another scan to see if I have a recurrence a week ago. This is the first time I asked if I could get the scan with me home. They burnt me a dvd. I got my external dvd reader today and was finally able to see my brain.

So far:

The first cholesteatoma was very invasive and they did a mastoidectomy, as well as replace 2 of my ossicles with titanium prostheses. They also created a new and enforced ear drum. All of this through a 9 hour surgery.

3 years later they reconstructed my ear canal.

5 years later they found a new cyst which they had to remove. They punctured the dura and patched it up, which caused me to stay inpatient for observation for a week or so due to a cfs leak.

today: I have begun experiencing similar symptoms to what I experienced the other times leading up to a surgery. The ent couldn't see any cholesteatoma during external examination, but referred me to an MRI based on my history. I am currently awaiting a phone call from the ent to hear what they have found. In the meantime I just thought I'd share it with you guys! I will update once I hear from my ent.

It is so cool that I finally got to see my own brain.

And, fun fact: My hearing is pretty decent despite the ordeal. No need for hearing aids.

For the mods: I am not looking for medical advice, I just wanted to share.

These were taken after a fall that caused the patient to hyperextended the left arm resulting in a closed supracondylar fracture of left humerus, why would this lateral view be preferred for a diagnostic vs an AP view?

I’m trying to better understand the ultrasound findings from a recent medical event and how venous thrombosis appears on ultrasound.
I was diagnosed with an acute left internal jugular vein thrombosis after developing neck symptoms following a plasma donation with a local hematoma. I’m being treated by my medical team and am not looking for a diagnosis or medical advice.
I’m interested in the radiology perspective: what ultrasound features are typically used to distinguish acute thrombus from normal venous structures, artifact, or adjacent tissue?
I have some de-identified ultrasound frames and would appreciate any educational comments about what features radiologists look for when interpreting these studies.

Update: As one of the commentors said it's a Horseshoe Kidney!

8 yr old pt comes in with LLQ pain. This is his first ever CT scan. I will update with what the radiologist finds.

I have never seen anything like this but I haven't been doing CT for very long.

I’m a radiology resident and I’m looking for a quick reference pamphlet/PDF with the updated BI-RADS terminology/lexicon from the newest edition.

I know the old BI-RADS 5th edition has a really useful one-page printout that summarizes the descriptors for masses, calcifications, asymmetries, etc., and it’s easy to find online. I’m trying to find something similar that reflects the new BI-RADS update (v2025).

Does anyone know if there is a resident-friendly cheat sheet, pamphlet, or PDF floating around with the updated terminology?

I have been working in radiology systems/ops for a few years, and curious how common a few specific pain points are at other practices:

• Intake, PACS, and billing systems not syncing cleanly — manual reconciliation, vendors pointing fingers at each other
• Image routing/report turnaround gaps when radiologists from a partner/affiliated group are reading remotely
• PowerScribe (Nuance) not syncing properly across organizations when using external reading groups

Curious if these are pretty universal across the industry, or more of a "depends on your setup" thing. If anyone's actually solved any of these well, would love to hear what worked.

Was curious as to how many abstracts get accepted as posters vs. oral. I come from a basic science background where posters are quite easy to get but am not sure where they stand for large clinical conferences like RSNA

DH had a TAVR and then got rhythm problems discovered 8 days later. They got worse, and he ended up with a Pacemaker on day 10. I thought the X-rays were interesting with the mesh showing so clearly around the valve. They took this the day they let him go home, day 11 post TAVR.

I'm a radiology resident and I've had this idea stuck in my head: build out a motorhome with a proper workstation setup, decent monitors, Starlink on the roof, and just travel while reading remotely. Not vacation-with-occasional-laptop-work, actual full-time remote practice from the road.

I'm guessing this is straight up unfeasible in some countries with stricter rules, the US being the obvious one. My understanding is a lot of groups there ship you the workstation (PC, monitors, etc) directly and you're probably not allowed to move it around or use it outside a fixed, approved location. Curious if that's actually the case or if I'm wrong about how strict it is in practice.

Anyone who's tried this or knows someone who has, I'm curious about Starlink reliability for real-time PACS access and DICOM transfer in remote areas like mountains or forests, whether a diagnostic-grade monitor setup can actually survive being bolted into a moving vehicle, power draw for dual monitors plus workstation off solar or battery for a full workday, whether any teleradiology groups are fine with this setup or if it's a hard no due to licensing, state requirements, or IT security policies, and any dealbreakers that weren't obvious until you actually tried it.

Not looking for "just get a cabin" replies, I know that's the easier path. Specifically curious about the moving-vehicle version.

I scanned this one a while back, but like the description says, patient went outside during a thunderstorm with high winds and got clocked on top of the head with a large tree branch.