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Short lessons built on real scans and primary sources. New lessons are added as each video is published.

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Physics

CT windows: one scan, many pictures

Why the same CT slice can look completely different: Hounsfield units, the limited greys of a screen, and why scans are read in more than one window.

Signs

Early ischaemic signs on unenhanced CT

The subtle signs of an early middle cerebral artery infarct on a plain head CT: the insular ribbon, the lentiform nucleus and the grey-white border.

Emergency

Pulmonary embolism on CT: the filling defect

How a pulmonary embolus looks on CT pulmonary angiography, how acute and chronic clot differ, and why a poor study should say what it could not assess.

Artefacts

The India ink artefact on opposed-phase MRI

Why thin black lines outline organs on opposed-phase MRI, why they vanish in phase, and what the line means at the edge of a mass.

Procedures

Ultrasound-guided thyroid fine-needle aspiration

How the needle looks under ultrasound during thyroid FNA, what a study comparing needle sizes found, and the six Bethesda reporting categories.

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