My grandmother just had a CT scan and I’ve been researching her diagnosis online. While doing so, I stumbled upon this post over at Mind Hacks.

“The image you can see on the left is the ‘face of the giant panda sign’ that appeared in a brain scan of a patient with multiple sclerosis… The pattern is apparently caused by “high signal in the tegmentum, normal signals in the red nuclei and lateral portion of the pars reticulata of the substantia nigra, and hypointensity of the superior colliculus”

So, I’m the first to admit that I have no clue what most of that means, but I thought I’d post it for those who do. Perhaps the photo will help clear things up…

The entire scan is after the cut. (more…)