I've been suffering from sinus problems on and off since the past 15 years. 3 years ago, especially after getting afflicted with COVID, my right side nose block symptoms became progressively unbearable and an ENT performed septoplasty and FESS operation 2 months ago but only on the right side sinuses.

Since I repeatedly focused more on right side symptoms and only mentioned occasional left sided headaches with no nose block issues on that side, the doctor after initially seeing the CT scans, said he'll operate on the left side too but finally decided to operate only on the right side while I was still under general anesthesia.

The operation was successful - minimally painful and swift recovery. Now that the right side nose is unblocked and feels very open, I feel the left side still has some mild symptoms. I've had left sided facial neuralgia, weakness and mild ptosis for a long time which I didn't explicitly mention to the ENT and he didn't ask about it either.

I now feel the left side sinuses are still clogged (there's a small synechia) and asked the ENT to check again but he says there are no issues. Should I get this checked by other ENTs and insist on further treatment such as FESS again or balloon sinuplasty? Is it the "not so" Silent Sinus Syndrome?

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Just wondering if you knew of any resources (books/websites/videos/webinars) that deals with oncology imaging? Usually this falls under the remit of the body system the cancer belongs to but still feel there is a lot of overlap in just general oncology surveillance scan reporting?

TIA

I’m not crazy, there are lines. Can’t see well in other test images of like my phone. Is it possibly from the table mat/ blanket? Contrast looks ok, is it technique or the computer screen?

No way to fix it İ suppose

So I'm not really sure how many of you all might remember me (if so hello) but I dealt with what is called a giant cell tumor of the bone I'm not going to explain it all (I have other posts you can see if you wish) but they did a chest CT like a month ago and the next day I get a call that I have tumors in my lungs (the largest is on screen) and then I get an MRI of my hand that had the tumor and there is three more in my hand two on top and one larger one in my wrist area

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Cxr of a kyphotic patient taken by a tech who didn't attend a traditional rad tech program and was unaware of the existence of lordotic chest positioning.

I struggle to get a perfect scapular y… any tips?

I'm developing a program to display ultrasound data as an internship for this company. I have no former radiology experience but I'm a decent software dev. I'm at the part where I need to display the exported image onto the screen. I messed around with the file format, and found that the pixel data is stored in shades of gray in an array of 16-bit ints from 0-4096.

I'm at the part where I need to stretch the image, I have no clue what algorithms are used to warp and stretch an ultrasound image into a wedge shape. Does anyone know how that works? I'm at a complete loss. Here's the image I exported (just saving pixel data from left to right) and what it's supposed to look like.

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Hi! I have an assignment regarding conventional (linear) tomography. I would like to know if contrast media were used with this type of scanner and if it is also called focal plane tomography. Thanks!

U/S demonstrates 82 mm stone . Surgeon said no way . The gallbladder and stone .

Negative Murphy though!

I'm scheduled to take my ARRT in a few weeks I have been taking mocks from March 1 to present. I started off getting 60's on the RadTechBootCamp exams to 80's. When I use RadReview I get 50's. I take one day out of the week to review my weak points and hoon in that day.. for those who took the exam already do you guys think this is effective way to study?

The owner of the clinic that I work at is a radiologist, who happened to be on site at our location td and I had such a funny encounter:

Patient: “my chiropractor said my like cervical spine seems to curved so he wants an X-ray.”

Radiologist (who was in the X-ray room with me): “oh really!? If there’s a curve there then it seems like we all must have some problem that your chiropractor can fix”

My radiologist is acc not scared of anything 😂. Also the patient didn’t really get what he was saying which made it even funnier.

So I currently have my ARRT Registry scheduled for 2 weeks after my class does the in person Kettering seminar and I was wondering if that is too big of a gap between each other and if I should reschedule my exam closer to the date of the Kettering seminar?

Which diseases would be most impacted?

Which disease processes would be essentially cured?

Which high mortality cancers be essentially cured?

Note, this is not a discussion of whether AI will take over radiologists' roles. This is supposed to be a though experiment on how early diagnosis can alter healthcare.

Hello everyone,

I was curious what X-ray and CT techs do when a patient has a CGM and/or insulin pump. When I worked at a hospital we xrayed right through them and didn't think twice about it. I was told regular x-rays wouldn't effect either. I am now working at a clinic which requires a patient to remove their monitors and devices. If they dont/can't remove the device they have to sign a waiver saying our facility is not liable if the readings are not accurate, or of their pump fails to work.

I don't recall learning about this in school, so now I'm freaking out at how much expensive equipment I may have destroyed from my hospital days 😰

Work at a hospital as transport and before taking a patient to CT mobile X-ray came around and did a quick scan. Why would you need an X-ray before CT. isn’t CT going to have more to look at along with the same angle as an X-ray? I was thinking it’s HCA so they are gonna try and profit as much as possible to just order more images even though it wouldn’t really help. (This is what I think why)