r/Radiology

Is there anyway to know if this is upright, seated, or supine?

Unfortunately these are from my own dog. No advice needed, she's at peace now and I understand fully what happened. Just wanted to share for educational purposes and discussion.

These hip xrays are only 12 days apart. Angle slightly different, but generally same shot. First taken when trying to diagnose the cause of stiffness and pain as part of a multi-study workup. Ultimately biopsy of a cervical lymph node a couple of days after this yielded melanated cells and we were advised to schedule with an oncologist, which we did for a week and a half out. Unfortunately she rapidly spiraled, I won't go into the ugly details, but between this, lung mets, and how fast things were progressing, we let her go, she didn't make it to the consult. I think it even rattled the emergency vet attached to the oncologist we scheduled with.

The shocking thing to me is just how fast this happened, and how easy it is to point out to a layman. Soft tissue and blood vessels are more my thing, but even I can see and say "yeah, that's not supposed to be there" on the left ilium.

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.

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

I've been working on an interactive x-ray tube simulator for radiography students, and I'd love for people to try it out!

One of my biggest goals with teaching radiography physics is to get beyond memorization. I want students to understand why things happen, not just memorize definitions and formulas for the registry.

This simulator lets you adjust kVp and mAs and see what's happening inside the x-ray tube. I've also built a guided section that walks through the tube components, and I'm working on questions to reinforce these concepts.

This is an early project, so I'm sharing it in hopes of getting honest feedback from students and fellow technologists. I'd love to hear what works, what doesn't, and what other concepts you'd want to see turned into interactive simulations.

Here's the link: https://x-ray-tube-education-h0j9.bolt.host/

Feel free to play around with it! I'd genuinely appreciate any feedback.

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

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

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.

My daughter, 13f, Marfan syndrome + multiple congenital anomalies including giant omphalocele and wild scoliosis makes for an interesting picture

X-Ray is from the ER, waiting to follow up w/ ortho on Monday. Had a finger trap closed reduction, but the physician isn’t confident it worked. Soooo hoping this won’t need surgery.