Re: extremely off topic-Xrays

Clarification: All records, Xrays included, generated in the management of
patients are the property of the generator of the service. The information
derived from that service, under a variety of federal and state statutes,
is - in most but not all circumstances - accessable to the patient. Under
1996 HIPPA regulations the professional interpretations may be challenged by
the patient but cannot be entirely overwritten. I have not yet figured out
the status of XRays interpreted off-site - such as at a distant or foreign
institution, such as India - but suppose that the primary responsibility
rests with the professional ordering the service. Joachim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kris Erickson" <kris.erickson@utoronto.ca>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 9:13 AM
Subject: Re: extremely off topic-Xrays

> !!
> That's very interesting info!
>
> > Do a bit of search on the web and think how you want your
> > brain to be sliced.
>
> Now, when you say "sliced"....
> You don't mean....
> Physically....
> <gulp>
> ;-)
> Although--and not to be inhuman--a thin enough slice of tissue might
> make an interesting photogrammed image... all ethics aside, of course
>
> k
>
>
>
> Ryuji Suzuki wrote:
>
> > From: Gumprint@aol.com
> > Subject: Re: extremely off topic-Xrays
> > Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 22:27:16 -0500 (EST)
> >
> >
> >>Where I live (greater Metro D.C.) the XRays are the property of the
> >>physician who orders it, despite it being of you.
> >
> >
> > I don't know about difference across states, etc. but this is partly
> > the policy of the doctor, the hospital and the imaging center. My
> > neurologist likes to send patients to an imaging center where the
> > doctor could order duplicate films, and she also said some other
> > imaging centers don't do that. But actually there's a way to get this
> > all doen for free.
> >
> > But if you want to get your MRI scans of brain and skull, go find a
> > newspaper, subway advertisement, free paper classified, craigslist,
> > whatever and find all sorts of brain imaging studies. The best is to
> > find a PhD student in neuroscience, psychology, whatever related
> > field. They like to have you sit in the machine while you hear
> > strange sounds or you count something or something simple, and they
> > like to pay you some small amount of cash. Details vary from study to
> > study but you contribute to scientific knowledge that may find some
> > use for human health decades later, you get money to buy a brick of
> > film, and if asked nicely, they'll probably burn a CD-ROM of TIFF
> > images. Do a bit of search on the web and think how you want your
> > brain to be sliced. Transverse, parasagittal, coronal are standard but
> > they tend to slice on a non-standard plane that includes all brain
> > structures of their interest. Those studies are also subject to
> > privacy regulations but you sign on the informed consent form and they
> > shouldn't be too uptight about it, especially if you promise to send a
> > few of your friends for the study. Anatomical studies are probably the
> > best because they should be getting high res scans... but dont
> > complain me or them if you don't get the kind of slices you want -
> > they may not gather the picture you want. (Some studies actually
> > advertise the TIFF image in CD-ROM as a part of the compensation!)
> >
> > If you like true x-ray, you probably need some clinically legitimate
> > reason and a doctor who doesn't mind extra trouble. Scientific studies
> > use mostly MRI, because it uses no radiation or radioactive material
> > and allows more functional investigation... making PET, CT,
> > etc. rather obsolete. But you can get MRI scans that look similar to
> > x-ray if you ask for the image "weighted" that way.
> >
> > --
> > Ryuji Suzuki
> > "Reality has always had too many heads." (Bob Dylan, Cold Irons Bound,
1997)
>
>
Received on Thu Nov 20 08:26:31 2003