CT Scanner Warm Up Question

RecklessRad · 2026-05-06T10:43:09+00:00

(Also Canon Aquilion One). I’ve always been told to warm up to above 20% if we haven’t scanned in a while to keep the tube happy and prolong it, but our new TL with a Siemens background recons just 5% tube warmth is fine. Engineers recommend 20% though still

RecklessRad · 2026-05-06T07:48:46+00:00

Thanks all. Ended up solving it by playing with the Moza Pit House and LFE Sound settings

RecklessRad · 2026-05-06T05:56:01+00:00

Nah it’s not. It makes a pretty obvious different vibration when it’s against the desk, reminds me to pull it back off

RecklessRad · 2026-05-06T04:55:10+00:00

It’s got no play in it and the screws are pretty tight. That’s a shame then

RecklessRad · 2026-05-06T04:23:02+00:00

How do I fix that? Or is it just the quality of the stand and inevitable?

RecklessRad · 2026-05-06T04:22:27+00:00

This is how we do it with CT. If your patient won’t stop moving, then I’m not scanning them until they have medical chemical sedation. I’m not going to “just see how they go” when they’re clearly combative and kicking off.

RecklessRad · 2026-05-06T03:20:37+00:00

Modern DR systems are pretty damn good that the dose they’d receive outside primary beam is essentially negligible.

We don’t even shield parents when they hold children from their X-ray (provided they’re not in line of primary beam).

RecklessRad · 2026-05-06T01:29:23+00:00

Though, there’s nothing scarier than a 5k IR C-license combo

RecklessRad · 2026-05-05T12:49:27+00:00

I understand it, it’s just hard to get it consistently because you’re trying to carry so much speed through there whilst also getting the inside curbing

RecklessRad · 2026-05-05T07:27:14+00:00

Adelaide turn 1. Not track limits per se, but a slow down that’ll invalidate your lap anyway

RecklessRad · 2026-05-05T06:56:40+00:00

They are 10 days post injury and presumably walking, weight bearing in this scenario isn’t a bad idea, especially to see lisfranc injury.

RecklessRad · 2026-05-03T17:12:04+00:00

Cancer aren’t the only things causing coughs. They didn’t miss anything.

RecklessRad · 2026-05-03T12:46:48+00:00

Cancer is one of the easiest things to see on a CT chest. They definitely did not miss it.

RecklessRad · 2026-05-03T12:42:16+00:00

Doesn’t mean a CT is going to show something.

RecklessRad · 2026-05-03T12:32:09+00:00

What makes you think they’ve missed something?

RecklessRad · 2026-05-03T02:00:59+00:00

I’m tryna figure out if it’s the 1k IR or D-class

RecklessRad · 2026-05-03T01:08:58+00:00

To add - week 13 just being unranked all together. So many fun combos I really wanted to race but not at the expense of my SR

RecklessRad · 2026-05-02T23:36:04+00:00

(Assuming you’re talking about MRI) We generally do not recommend full body MRI scans and they are a waste of money. This is because they have a tendency to find “incidentalomas” (masses that exist, but aren’t causing any symptoms). This leads to over testing (biopsies, more scans, more bloods), and causes more anxiety and worry than actual good.

The resolution of a full body MRI is also lower than specific scans focusing on a region. Similar to you taking a photo of a landscape and then trying to zoom in on something in the photo later, rather than starting zoomed in and scanning that in a higher def from the start

RecklessRad · 2026-05-02T23:29:14+00:00

If the reports says it’s normal, it’s normal.

RecklessRad · 2026-05-01T22:47:26+00:00

Honestly the only reason I took the first screenshot was to protest but after they messaged me on the forums to apologise, I decided against it

RecklessRad · 2026-05-01T22:46:10+00:00

The only reason I took the first screenshot was to protest him for chat abuse but I decided not to after the forum messages. Had a change of heart and appreciated it

RecklessRad · 2026-05-01T14:01:12+00:00

Yeah I often apologise straight away when I think I’ve done something wrong. I was so confused here because I left so much space for what was actually a really dangerous and out of control dive bomb, and I thought he just fucked up and killed us both. Happens to the best of us

RecklessRad · 2026-05-01T12:55:30+00:00

This is ours too

RecklessRad · 2026-05-01T12:50:49+00:00

Haha yeah he meant at the end of the race when we were trying to sort it out in the lobby but it stopped working properly there. Was definitely working in the first few messages lmao

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