5th Week : CT scan

• On friday, I met with senior Azmi Sulaiman who currently working at Arunamari SMC klang and Encik Zulfadli our beloved lecturer who currently pursuing his master. Advice taken.
• A month already past and i am getting more and more comfortable with this place. 
• This week happen to be more "happening" compare to the previous 4 weeks.
• The fact that i'm the only student at CT doesn't make me less talkative. heh
• All the senior radiographer treat me very well, WELL some of them do look like they want to ignore me. but hell. this is ME. :D. En/Cik/Puan "Azman, Harris,liyana,rohaida,zaileha,nurul,nurain,aina,amir,mamaton,zurita,zana" they all taught me something
• Let's go straight to the point shall we. Most common CT done is
• CT Brain (contrast/without contrast)
• CTU (Plain)
• CT TAP (with contrast) short for "thoracic,abdomen,pelvic
• and the extremities "hip n etc"
• There were TWO CT machine each in separate room (ofcourse la kan)  in HTAR. The old/new one. basically for the old one they use it to do CT BRAIN. because they said the image looks better using the old one. And it would be a waste if they don't use it right.(because the "new CT machine can do a LOT MORE faster than the old one)

CT BRAIN

• If everything went well, it took less than 10 minutes to do CT brain. 
• But if contrast is given. maybe another 5 or 10 minutes added. 
• contrast given was omnipaque? :p 50ml for adult using 2x 20ml syringe and 1x 10ml syringe. for childreN? it have something to do with the patient body weight.  i ll come back to this later. heh. 
• And i'm lucky because Encik Azman taught me how to do CT Brain. Like seriously TAUGHT me. (baseseq,cerebseq)
• And Encik Amir taught me how to read the image. But only the basic one i guess. Circle of willis, the chinese smile face appear usually if the brain is normal (most of them is normal 0.0) :D, the grey/white matter,the vertebra arteries to look if there is any calcification, and a few more i regret of not taking note.

CT TAP/CTU/ and others

• Most of the procedure ↑ done using the new CT machine. 
• Feet 1st,hand above the patient head
• For CTU center at Nipple line, Usually plain image (without contrast).
• For TAP center at level of chin
• others depend.
• Make sure the MCP & MSP is align.

Assessment.

• Nothing was done.

Clinical Study

• Still haven't got the approval letter to start our clinical study from the "pengarah hospital".
• Currently focusing on ovarian malignancy.