Brain imaging course – 3 – How to review brain cases

This video is the third in a series of a brain imaging course. In this video, we talk about basics of how to review brain cases on your own, including some tips for how to get effective at finding abnormalities and learning your on your own. If you haven’t seen it already, the entire course is available here: 0:00 Basics, slice thickness and reformats When you are reviewing brain cases, you need a structured way of looking at each case to make yourself a sensitive and effective radiologist. This is called a search pattern. You also need to know the ways in which the different images you are provided are different. For example, images can be provided at different thicknesses. In general, thinner images have sharper edges but more noise. Thicker images are better for looking at the bones. We also have different reformats. On CT, that is usually from one set of data that is displayed in a different plane. The most conventional is perp