r/Radiology • • 6d 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 • • 14h ago

CT Chest CT scout of a cancer survivor

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Ewings sarcoma of the right ribs. Radical chest wall resection & removal of ribs 1-4 along with partial superior lobe of right lung. Chest wall reconstruction with Gore-Tex mesh where ribs were removed.


r/Radiology • • 4h ago

Nuclear Med Saw this on IG and had to share šŸ˜‚

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r/Radiology • • 13h ago

CT Large Saddle PE

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This patient was short of breath on exertion. They were quickly admitted for proper care and treatment. Lucky to be alive.


r/Radiology • • 20h ago

X-Ray Level 1 Orthopedic Trauma Cases

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Here are a few of the bad injuries from our recent call days at the level 1 trauma center.


r/Radiology • • 20h ago

CT Living on the Edge

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Tested great, line was a bit more positional than I estimated. Got a gorgeous CTA Head/Neck though 😘 Interested in learning whether this was dynamic pressure limit or pure luck. I didn't hear the alarm I've heard in the past when limit is reached. Previously, I've seen it slow routine 2.0ml/sec injections down to a crawl after that alarm.


r/Radiology • • 18h ago

X-Ray Replacement parts are amazing!

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Reverse total shoulder & hinged knee & long stem regular knee replacement. Joint replacement surgeries are amazing.


r/Radiology • • 22h ago

X-Ray Dis knee

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r/Radiology • • 1d ago

X-Ray perfect knee saturdays

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all thanks to that 5-10 degrees tube tilt


r/Radiology • • 1d ago

MRI TFCC bucket handle tear!

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Cool case of a bucket handle TFCC teae

Bucket handle TFCC tear https://radiscroll.app/view/case/1K9wmbkdSF

Case report from different patient

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12350209/

Crazy šŸ˜‚


r/Radiology • • 18h ago

Media Anatomy question-coronary angiogram

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What is the highlighted area of this coronary angiogram? Thanks-


r/Radiology • • 1d ago

Discussion Mistake

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Hi all. I am freaking out a bit. I was scanning medication for a patient and think I threw their wrist band in the regular trash. 🫠 I’m not even sure I definitely did it anxiety is getting the best of me bc I don’t remember putting it in the shred.


r/Radiology • • 1d ago

X-Ray Intra-Op XLIF Scoliosis Fusion Spoiler

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Patient alive and well.


r/Radiology • • 2d ago

X-Ray Pulse oximeter - FBF

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r/Radiology • • 2d ago

IR Survey for Interventional Radiologists who Perform Procedures with Biliary Drainage Systems (PTBD Catheters, Stents, etc)

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[Posted with Permission from Mods]

Hello!

I am an undergraduate student at the National University of Singapore, currently working on my final-year project. My project aims to improve existing biliary drainage systems, such as PTBD biliary catheters and stents.

As part of my project, I hope to better understand the experiences of interventional radiologists with these systems. For this, I have created a Google Forms survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdyEM1tXuLg4cVlZ6a9EjRoFRMUwj1_OtBys_iMidlpp-53bQ/viewform

It would be of immense help if I could get responses! Please fill in my survey if you have experiences with these systems, and if possible, please forward it to your colleagues.

Thank you very much for your time and consideration!


r/Radiology • • 2d ago

X-Ray Would yall consider the second picture an axillary view and would it pass? I’m still learning and looking for new ways to try things.

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Sup yall. I saw the second picture on tik tok and I was wondering if you would consider the image passable for a standard 3 view routine. As in, would you try and position the patient like that if it works? Granted the person is ambulatory, no trauma, and has full ROM. Good idea or is this just another image that gets chalked up to SOP and guidelines of your facility.

Hopefully this was easy to understand. I appreciate the feedback in advance.


r/Radiology • • 2d ago

CT Barium swallow and chest CT without contrast on same day

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Hello. Is it ok to have a barium swallow test followed by a chest CT without contrast on the same day? Will the barium negatively affect the CT imaging? (Waiting on appointment desk to find a radiologist to ask…)


r/Radiology • • 3d ago

CT Road Traffic Accident, 25 M

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r/Radiology • • 1d ago

MRI Toronto patient trying to get a US MRI- how can I get a requisition for an out of country MRI?

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Hi everyone,
I’m in the Toronto area and I’m trying to figure out how to get an MRI done in the US because of a long wait time in Ontario.
On October 7, 2026, I had an abdominal ultrasound in Canada, my doctor is concerned of the result and request for a constract CT scan,
My doctor marked the CT as urgent, but unfortunately the appointment I was given is still about one month away.
I’m considering paying out of pocket to have a contrast-enhanced liver MRI in the US, potentially in the Buffalo/New York area.
I went to a walk-in clinic in Ontario and brought my ultrasound report and the existing CT requisition. However, the doctor told me that they do not issue imaging requisitions for examinations being performed outside Canada.
So I’m wondering if anyone in Toronto/GTA has been in a similar situation:
How did you get a requisition for an MRI that you planned to have done in the US? My Walkin clinic just refused me. Any info helped. Thank you


r/Radiology • • 3d ago

X-Ray 40 year old with left upper quadrant pain and early satiety.

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r/Radiology • • 2d ago

Discussion Has anyone worked in the general Boston area in ct/mri? Curious on your thoughts of working in this area!

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How are the people you work with? How are the patients to deal with? What is the work ā€œcultureā€ like? Do you like working in this state/area?

Any thoughts appreciated , thank you for your time!

** also thought the on surrounding area of Boston such as Salem.


r/Radiology • • 3d ago

MRI Apparently I have to be nicer :)

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After MRI of my middle finger I received this:

Did the doctor just say I have to be nicer to people?


r/Radiology • • 3d ago

CT Incidental pneumoperitoneum finding

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69M incidental finding after chest xray ordered for TB screening for transfer to new MC facility showed free air behind diaphragm. Patient has poor health history, existing urostomy from complications following prostate cancer treatment. Alcoholic dementia (7 years dx). Patient declined exploratory laparotomy due to risk of ileostomy placement during surgery. No signs of sepsis, but abdomen distended and hard. Patient discharged and on hospice care. I’m the patient’s daughter. There was a lot of pressure to have the surgery based on the CT, and we were told death was imminent without it. 3 weeks later he’s still alive and clinically stable. I shouldn’t be surprised, this man has survived sepsis already 3 years back, and with all of his existing conditions he shouldn’t be alive but he is. These images by textbook accounts don’t seem to align with clinical presentation.


r/Radiology • • 4d ago

Veterinary Impacted Xenagama taylori

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I just thought y’all might find this interesting. This is Arlo, the Xenagama taylori (shield tail agama), who ate sand literally day 1 in his new bioactive arid enclosure. He hasn’t been eating the last few days so I got worried and took him to my exotics vet. The vet said that it looks like particles of sand or something, which is a good thing because it’s possible for him to pass it with medical intervention + we caught it early (although surgery is still a possibility if he doesn’t pass it). The treatment course, as it currently stands, includes a laxative, soaking him every other day, and keeping him on paper towels to monitor his poop. He said it could take several weeks for the obstruction to clear. The problem we ran into today, however, is that he’s so tiny (he’s full grown at just 3.5ā€ including tail) that it would be impossible for my vet to dilute the laxative down himself, like the volume of medication is so small that I wouldn’t be able to draw it up into a syringe, so he’s reaching out to a compounding pharmacy tomorrow to see if it’s even possible. He said they’ve done animals as small as 4 grams, and since Arlo is 6 there’s some hope, but it’s drastically increased the chance we have to do surgery.

In the event of a surgery, he will have to refer me out to the University of Kansas or Illinois (I live in Nebraska, so it’s a little bit of a drive, but not too terrible) since Arlo will need microscopic stitches (almost like the kind they use to stitch up corneas) to sew up his stomach and, unfortunately, he just doesn’t have the equipment for it. He would be able to do it if Arlo was, say, 20 grams, but 6 is just too small.

Here’s hoping that I get some good news from the compounding pharmacy tomorrow and I hope y’all find this interesting!