
05/04/2025
Successful scanning tip:
✅ CUT YOUR ORGANS! ✂️
And I’m not talking about performing surgery 😷 Anyone who knows me will know how much I dislike surgery🔪 😂
Would you believe these still images were taken from the same exact kidney?? 😳‼️
Just as radiographs only capture a 2D image ◽️of our 3D organs 🧊 , a still ultrasound image will only give you a snapshot 📸 of the organ of interest.
This is why in radiology 🩻 we take orthogonal views. It’s the same in sonography but in ultrasound scanning, we have the benefit of not only viewing our organ in both longitudinal or transverse plane, we can view or cut it in so many different ways! 🔍 .
Make sure you are fanning, rocking, sliding, and twisting your probe to “slice” the organ in as many different planes as possible or you could be missing substantial pathology.
Happy scanning 🛜