Sunday, November 18, 2007

Cat Scan of The Tumor -- See it Now

I have a disc from Moffitt that as the cat-scan results. I wanted to provide the medical people in my family a chance to see these. I finally figured out how to export the images from the disc I have to this blog. So here goes:

The first image is my chest. The tumor is on the left side (my upper right lung). You can see it as a shadow that is very large.

The next series are showing me as if you were looking at a cross-section of me from the bottom up. In other words, you are seeing me in slices going through my body. The black area is the lung. The area that is gray on the left side of the image (my right lung) is the tumor. These are actually a series of 78 images that are merged together on a continuous loop so you can see the entirety of the tumor. I selected two here to show you the tumor at it greatest point. In the second image you can see the tumor is surrounding the superior vena cava, which is giving the doctors some worry. You can also see that it is quite involved with my entire central chest.





Its a big mother. I have lot's more pictures, but you get the idea.

1 comment:

June said...

Woah. Not at all how I'd imagined it...