• @Madison420
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    1 year ago

    Those are lungs seen top down. Those white ovals around the left and right sides sorta hugging the black areas are ribs, the white arrow shape is a vertebrae the hole in it for the spinal cord.

    I’m not a rad tech or doctor but I’m 99% sure.

    https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/full/10.1148/ryct.2020200193

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      My mom had me when I was young and I helped her study when she went back to college for Radiology. I thought this was some really weird joke or something… like she is so dumb she is telling her doctor that it’s a brain scan image.

      Jeez I need to get some more sleep.

      • fabian
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        31 year ago

        my mom had me when i was young, too

        hope you had a good rest

    • Thalamus
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      51 year ago

      It’s a transverse section so it’s not really ‘top down’ or ‘bottom up’. It’s a thin slice where the densities of the tissue is calculated by sending through X-rays from around the body and measuring how much gets trough from each angle and then letting a computer do some fancy math.

      • @Madison420
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        31 year ago

        Top down is easier to explain to people then transverse so I said top down instead.

          • @Madison420
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            11 year ago

            Correct, and I could have used bottom up as the analogy as well, I just think to down since that’s the way they go through ct’s and mris when I get them done.