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If you thought MRI scanners that explode are scary, what follows may be even more terrifying (and educative)…
From the May 2002 issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
Spontaneous Discharge of a Firearm in an MR Imaging Environment

An incident recently occurred at an outpatient imaging center in western New York State, in which a firearm spontaneously [...]

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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 [...]

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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I saw my friend Ramona’s post and multiple posts on twitter about Blog Action Day 2008 - Poverty earlier today yesterday. It’s past midnight and I know I am late.
I initially did not want to write anything. My reasoning was that any medical person in my country could fill volumes with the gut-wrenching instances of [...]