Approach to CHF on the CXR 

Believer in Perspectivism

Mother in Law Rosalie Fisher – Physicist

Nietzsche and the Truth

Looking at the the Pixel/Voxel from Many Angles

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What are you curious about CT of the Chest?

NOTES – Anatomy

Overview of the Anatomy of the Lungs

SCALES

Search Pattern

MUSIC

You have to decide

Parts

S – Size
S – Shape
P = Position
C – Character
T-Time

Density (Approximate)

 It is a scale from black to white of 4096 values  and ranges from -1024 HU to 3071 HU

Pure Air –?1000 HU

Lungs  about -700 to -800HU

Fat   about -100HU

Pure Water = 0HU

Physiological fluid 10-18HU

Soft Tissue – 40-70 HU

Bone  2000 HU for very dense bone

Windows

preset windows

optimize visibility of certain structures or abnormalities of interest.

window width

 Range of CT numbers that an image contains.
Wide window width   (2000 HU)
Narrow Window Width (1000 HU),

window level aka window center
                  is the midpoint of the range of the CT numbers displayed
set to the tissue bein explored.

Lung windows typically have a

wide window width = lots of grays
       1000 to 1500 HU.
a window level
-600 to -700 Hounsfield units (HU)

Soft Tissue Windows 

  • window width
    • 200 – 400 HU
  • window level
    • 50 HU

Others

  • head and neck
    • brain W:80 L:40
    • subdural W:130-300 L:50-100
    • stroke W:8 L:32 or W:40 L:40 3
    • temporal bones W:2800 L:600 or W:4000 L:700
    • soft tissues: W:350?400 L:20?60 4
  • chest
    • lungs W:1500 L:-600
    • mediastinum W:350 L:50
  • abdomen
    • soft tissues W:400 L:50
    • liver W:150 L:30
  • spine
    • soft tissues W:250 L:50
    • bone W:1800 L:400

 

Key Words TCV Links WF
secondary lobule TCV TCV WF
small airways
Small airways disease
TCV  
air bronchogram TCV  
bulla TCV  
congestive heart failure (CHF) TCV 246Lu  
consolidation TCV WF TCV WF
empyema TCV faces  
nodules TCV Map  
ground glass TCV  
ground glass opacity (GGO) TCV 046Lu COVID TCV WF
atelectasis TCV  
bronchiectasis TCV faces  
bronchiolitis   TCV
mass cavitating TCV faces  
effusion pleural TCV faces  
pleural thickening and calcifications (asbestos exposure) TCv 240Lu  
pneumomediastinum TCV 217Lu  
pneumothorax TCV Faces  
pneumothorax tension TCV Faces  
pulmonary hypertension TCV TCV
small airways disease
Small airways disease
TCV faces  
mass lung mass TCV faces  
tree-in-bud appearance TCV Faces