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I’m very late. Posting this on the eve of Deepavali.
This is a post on Fireworks Safety by my friend Ramona. She has posted this twice on her blog, before the July 4th American Independence Day for the past two years.
Very relevant for us in India at this time of the year.
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This is for my blog & twitter friend lekhni, who asked me on twitter a few days ago.
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lekhni @scanman I’d love your thoughts on this http://www.nytimes.com/2008… 2:59 AM Oct 15th from web in reply to scanman

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The link, to an article in The New York Times, was about, as [...]

Instead of flipping through a textbook, radiology residents will soon use computers to learn about the physics of radiology.
Four Web-based instructional modules are being developed by medical physicists and radiologists at the Medical College of Georgia. The project is funded by the Radiological Society of North America and the American Association of Physicists in Medicine.

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One of the cool things about doing obstetric ultrasonography is watching babies moving around and doing stuff within the uterus: kicking, clenching and unclenching their fists, yawning, sucking their fingers or toes or the umbilical cord, etc. 
Earlier (I mean a few years ago) the mother and family used to be most thrilled if we (as [...]

While looking through the archives of ultrasound images I came across a couple of instances of common diagnoses made through tests that are not commonly done to diagnose them. This is the second example. The first is here.
Hydroureteronephrosis with ureteric calculus is a common diagnosis on ultrasonography of the Abdomen (TAS = Transabdominal sonography). Here [...]

Watch this video first…

… and then read this article. Some excerpts…
A medical physicist in Alabama has noticed what could be a disturbing trend: exploding MRI magnets. Dr. Wlad Sobol of the University of Alabama-Birmingham, describes what may have caused the incidents and offers advice for avoiding potentially catastrophic incidents at medical facilities.
Wlad Sobol, PhD, a [...]

This one is for Bongi. Inspired by these two posts in his blog.

Diagnosis: Large pseudoaneurysm in the Superficial Femoral artery.
Cause: Bull gore injury.
Further reading:

Rads Wiki - Pseudoaneurysm.
Pseudoaneurysms and the Role of Minimally Invasive Techniques in Their Management. RadioGraphics 2005;25:S173-S189. Free fulltext.
Sonographic Evaluation of Vascular Injuries. J Ultrasound Med 2008. 27:95-107. Free fulltext available in India.

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Not something that we see everyday (like this one).

Transvaginal ultrasonogram showing an early second trimester intrauterine pregnancy with an intrauterine contraceptive device in situ (tiny white arrows) impinging on the gestational sac. Axial section of the fetal thorax (and the heart) and the fetal upper limbs are seen nearby.
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