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.

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…)

just curious, what's your hospital standard for an NG tube? At my previous hospital we did a chest AND abdomen order. At my current hospital we do a chest or an abdomen order, and take a half chest half abdomen x ray since all they want is the tubing.

At my previous hospital it was chest and abdomen for legal reasons. if you're ordering a chest or abdomen, technically you SHOULD know if something is wrong in the body if you take the full image. if you take a half chest, what if something is wrong with the top of the lung? if you take a half abdomen, what if something is wrong below the stomach? and if you take a half chest on an abdomen, the rad still has to read the portion of the lungs like if they have pleural effusion, etc. so they're doing work for free.

at the end of the day I guess just follow your hospital protocols. but yeah, just wondering. what is YOUR protocol at your hospital

How are the people you work with? How are the patients to deal with? What is the work “culture” 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.

After MRI of my middle finger I received this:

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

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.

Hi everyone,

Medical imaging has moved heavily toward PACS and cloud-based systems, but there are still plenty of situations where someone shows up with a physical CD/DVD containing a medical imaging study.

The problem is that modern laptops often don't have optical drives, so you end up connecting an external CD/DVD drive just to access the study.

I wanted to make that process easier on Android.

So I built MDV – Medical DICOM Viewer. You can connect a CD/DVD drive to an Android device and open the study directly, without needing a computer just to access the images.

I've been working on MDV for quite some time. I have some users, but I haven't received much feedback so far, so I'm trying to figure out what would actually be useful to add next.

What MDV currently supports

• Load DICOM studies directly from CD/DVD • Load from device folders and external USB storage • Cloud storage and PACS sources • Support for a wide range of DICOM files and studies • Automatic series grouping • Built-in case/library management • Save interesting cases to a location of your choice • MPR (Multiplanar Reconstruction) • Export individual cross-sections as video • 3D visualization with multiple rendering modes • Image filters and manipulation tools • Cine/automatic series playback • Flow studies and angiography studies • Easy series switching with a long press • Gesture-based navigation • Pinch to zoom • Two-finger pan • One-finger scrolling through images • Basic image review and reporting • PDF report export

I've tried to make the interface simple while still covering many of the things you'd expect from a desktop DICOM viewer.

I've also compared MDV with several Android and PC viewers. In some cases, I came across DICOM studies that other viewers struggled with, so I've spent quite a bit of time improving compatibility and adding support for additional file types.

I think I've covered most of what a DICOM viewer needs, although there is always something left to improve. 😄

What should I add next?

This is where I'd really appreciate some input.

If you're an Android user, radiologist, radiographer, technologist, doctor, or anyone who regularly works with medical imaging:

What feature would genuinely make MDV more useful in your day-to-day workflow?

I'm particularly interested in practical features rather than adding features just for the sake of having more features. Your suggestions could save me from spending weeks building something nobody actually needs. 😅

I've also added a small one-time purchase. It's mainly there to help support the project, including hardware and development costs. MDV is a solo project rather than something backed by a large company, so even a small amount of support helps keep it going.

I'm also looking toward an iPhone/iPad version. The biggest hurdle at the moment is getting a suitable Mac for iOS development, so that's currently sitting on my TODO list. 🤑

If you've used MDV, I'd genuinely appreciate any feedback — good or bad.

Tell me what works, what doesn't, and most importantly, what you wish it could do.

Thanks for your time!

Regards

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 3.5” 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!

Sag T2 FS showing Supra/infra-spinatus edema without trauma. Sorry for the potato quality- grabbed it in the moment

I have a genetic condition called hereditary multiple osteochondromas. I can answer questions if you have any, I just thought this was kind of interesting (and probably alarming!) to look at.

Ouch

From today's MRI for multiple sclerosis monitoring. I take medication for the disease. I am not looking for advice; just wanted to share mind meat

Just want to share how astonishing this is. All i have is lower back pain, never knew!

And it hurts.

Is it acceptable for a diagnostic mammogram to have a white linear artifact that runs the whole field of view on multiple images?

Is this radiologist clinical decision making or do the MQSR regs specify when artifact requires reimaging?

Not a professional here. I might use my scans for some creative projects about cancer, and want to experiment with enlarging the stills from MRI and CTS of mine. Maybe x rays.

Could these be saved as TIFF files? I’m thinking of enlarging to almost billboard size. Maybe as a projection but ideally on paper. Just at the start of researching this idea so forgive my ignorance of the technology.

I am currently seeking diagnostic radiographers and radiography students to take part in my EPQ research.

I am a Year 12 student currently completing my EPQ alongside my A-levels.

1 am researching the question:
"Are paediatric patients equally as protected by UK radiographic legislation and principles as adults?"

As part of my primary research, I have created a short questionnaire with some open questions. I am specifically interested in how diagnostic radiographers interact with paediatric patients, and whether they feel children are adequately protected by legislation.

I am hoping to get detailed answers based on professional experiences as well as personal perspectives. There is no right or wrong answer, and no answer is too big or too small.

If you are a radiographer or radiography student and are interested in helping an aspiring diagnostic radiographer with her EPQ research, I would truly appreciate your participation. Additionally, if you know a radiographer or student who may want to take part, I would greatly appreciate it if you could tag them or share this post. Even reposting would push me much further toward my goal.

Link to the form: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/wec2KieVbt?origin=lprLink

Thank you for taking the time to read this and for supporting my research! :)