Basic Imaging in Orthopedics

ALC site

OrthoCore

Need to Know 
Anatomy
Pathology
Rx
Healing
Complications

Musculo-Skeletal System

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Dictionary Published 1755 (Age 46) after 9 years of effort

Medicine, Reality  & Observations

Henry Gray
1825-1861
Anatomist
St. George’s Hospital London
1790-2002
1858 – Anatomy: Descriptive & Surgical

1918 – First edition
780 illustrations

2001 – 38th edition
2100 illustrations

Where do medical words  come from ?

Role of the Physician

Imaging in Art & Medicine

Vesalius 1543

Rabbi Judah Loew of Prague died in 1609

c.h.

Ch cu

Joseph Merrick 1862-1890
http://www.jsitton.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/elephant_man.htm

Imaging in Radiology

Imaging in Radiology

Roentgen

1910 X-ray
 Dr. Grubbe

Imaging in Radiology

Helical CT Scanner-
4 simultaneous slices x 1.25 mm

Slide 23

CT Control

PACS = Softcopy = No Film

Spondylolisthesis; Subluxation: Anterior? Posterior? Spinal stenosis?

CT 3-D Reconstruction

3-D Models of
a. prox femur &
b. acetabulum

Thank You
for your attention
– A. L. Carney M.D.