Magnetic Resonance Imaging
This procedure is nowadays transforming cancer diagnosis although (in France
at least) this facility is less accessible than CT-Scan.
The precise role of these two imaging facilities is likely to change in the
near future.
There are many websites on CT-scan for medical student learning.
The Virtual
Human Body project allows very interesting comparisons between CT slices
and anatomical slices (made possible thanks to donations from consenting death
row volunteers).
We would like to thank the authors of the radiology websites who have given
their consent for the selection of a few illustrative images.
Let us list a few of them:
-
Iconocerf website (Rennes France), elaborated the French College of
Radiologists, with many explanations on pathologies (in French and English),
- Mc
Gill University (Montréal) website , with many well documented views
of thorax pathology,
- Cleveland
University website, with many well documented clinical cases,
- Harvard
Brigham Hospital University Radiology Unit website, with many well documented
clinical cases,
- SRS Educational Resource
(website from the Scottish Radiology Society)
- European
Association of Radiology E-learning Initiative, with very well documented
views (16,000) of various pathologies (2,000 cases),
- a specific site for gynaecologic RMI (in French) at Marseille
University
- Dr
Web radiologica provides a list of links to radiology websites.
As well as many other websites.
All these sites show other pathologies than cancer: a very important
point of view since many other pathologies may involve images that are very
similar to cancer.
Here are a few definitions of tomodensitometry planes:
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Transverse plane (or axial
plane): this is a horizontal plane perpendicular to the standing
human body, dividing it into upper and lower parts. This is the original
reconstruction plane for tomodensitometry.
Sagittal plane: a vertical plane, running
from front to back, dividing the body into right and left sides. When
division occurs in the middle of the body, this plane is called median
plane.
Frontal plane (or coronal plane):
is a vertical plane running from side to side and dividing the body into
anterior and posterior parts.
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We have collected a few characteristic views, adding to them a small diagram
and comments in order to facilitate e-learning:
Brain RMI
Thorax RMI
Abdominal RMI
Pelvis RMI
Bone RMI
