Dr. Tim 'Stick' Szczykutowicz

Associate Professor of Radiology at the University of Wisconsin Madison. I do CT. Inventor (4×patents). 2x @rsna 5k run 🥇 @UWiscRadiology

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I challenge anyone on #MedTwitter #Radiology to produce something more nerdy about their profession :)

3 minutes of Computed Tomography rhyming below. @aapmHQ @SABImaging @ISCT2020 @CtSpectral @ctisus @UWiscRadiology

https://t.co/BRcZ4cMnzi

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@UWiscRadiology @JRobbinsMD @Wentland_MD_PhD @SABImaging And free lunch with Giuseppe Toia and I where we'll give a Deep Silicon photon counting update for @GEHealthCare

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Wisconsin’s world-class research institutions and universities like the ones here at @UWMadison are leading the world to find new ways to keep us healthy and growing our manufacturing workforce of tomorrow. It’s also what will make Wisconsin the perfect place for a Tech Hub!

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Almost here! 4 day CT course, all virtual, well priced. Use promo code #CTSAVE to get a discount.

https://t.co/TCHtz5ZZgQ

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This is how we make phantoms in the great dairy state of #OnWisconsin @UWiscRadiology @wiscmedphys

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@arosenkrantzmd @AJR_Radiology @UWiscRadiology We've been counting photons using silicon at Wisconsin for months now. Now we're counting awesome results like this one! Thanks @arosenkrantzmd and team, and I'm grateful for our productive collaboration with @GEHealthCare

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@DustinGress @DGlaucomflecken @ImageWisely Does advocate avoiding the orbits on head CT?

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@BarretoPhd @DrMarinaSala @aapmHQ @AAPM_WPSC 👏

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CAT scan... #Radiology

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Virginia airport TSA checkpoint X-ray machine accidentally scans traveler's pet: 'cat-astrophic mistake' https://t.co/y75nHYs5zw

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UW-Radiology's interventional CT program is leading the way on the latest in technology and clinical applications. Read about our new research! @Prof_TimStick @LStratchko

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@markPsupanich I'm so glad I don't have to deal with this system or the previous system (all the scanners I do annuals on are rad onc and don't have to go through these red tape loops)

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@CGlideHurst Lol. I guess no Pb bricks for carry ons

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1/2 Went through an airport with analogic CT scanners. tsa worker made a deal about people's bags not being too high, and even had weights to push down people's stuff. I asked a tsa person, she said "if a coat falls out the machine breaks". I assumed it was truncation issues

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2/2 and negatively affected image quality, but could it be there is no shield between the rotating gantry and the belt...?

I can't believe that. It must be stuff falls off and lays on the cover and throws artifacts for all the bags after until they clear it.

Thoughts?

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Imagine what they'll create after I them how to code ;)
(Two stories, son lashed a door, snow cave) @UWiscRadiology @WARF_News

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@CGlideHurst Stick house (from when I was a kid) advent calendar (my lil sticks are stuck with the Trader Joe's cardboard ones... not the same)

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@Radiology_Works @ASRT @CincyKidsRad @RSNA @aapmHQ I wonder if Santa's vet uses @Equina_AstoCT ?

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Feb 2-5, virtual conference on CT, register below.

UCSF CME Radiation Safety in Computed Tomography Virtual Symposium 2023: https://t.co/BkZwWtMPvc

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1, 2, 3, 4,.... billions of photons will be counted today at @UWiscRadiology @uwsmph via Deep Silicon from @GEHealthcare

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@MichaelOumano @AvrahamCooperMD I disagree. Using a wider beam for the scout is like saying a race car can beat another race car so long as it has a longer hood. That would only matter for really short races....

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@MichaelOumano @AvrahamCooperMD Localizer radiographs usually use a small (like 5 mm) configuration. For dose reasons, you'd need to lower the mA to the point of photon starvation if used a wider beam. Wide beam doesn't increase scout speed that much I think. t=d/v, with wide beam d gets reduced by a few cm?