
Episode #3
MSK Ultrasound Anisotropy: The Artifact That Makes Normal Tissue Look Torn
<p>"It's the only imaging modality that you can create your own pathology with the flick of a wrist."</p> <p>Tip the probe a few degrees off perpendicular and less sound comes back to it. Less sound back means a darker picture. A darker tendon reads as hypoechoic, and hypoechoic reads as torn. The image still looks fine. The finding is invented.</p> <p>Colin Rigney and Ryan Martin spend this episode on the two things that decide whether you can trust what is on your screen: anisotropy, the artifact that fools everyone early and that experienced scanners turn...

