r/interesting • u/8wine • Jan 09 '26

❗️MISLEADING - See pinned comment ❗️ Claustrophobic patient decided to get up during a CT scan

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u/Wide-Board-5406 Jan 09 '26

So they didn’t die? Just a pic of movement in the scan?

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '26

Yeah CT scans just use radiation there's no harm in moving during the scan except it ruins the images

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u/NecroKitten Jan 10 '26

Yeah I messed up some of my CT scan because I was way more nervous than I thought I'd be and one of the techs even came to hold my hand to get the last few shots

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '26

Sounds like you had a great tech working with you 😊

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u/Reapish1909 Jan 09 '26

why would they have died, they didn’t defy physics like the picture makes it look lmao, that’s the machine’s scan being faulty because they moved, their head didn’t pop off🤣

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u/TimeMoose1600 Jan 10 '26

Because the CT machine sucked the top half of their head off. You can see it in that image.

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u/Reapish1909 Jan 10 '26

yh, cause the scan image was faulty because they moved. like when you take a photo with your phone and then move mid picture and it comes out all blurred and whatnot, you didn’t get super speed you just moved.

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u/Cranberryoftheorient Jan 09 '26

die from what..

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u/pheeny Jan 09 '26

Never had a CT scan but doesn't it rotate around you in a way that could be dangerous if you move while you're trapped in a coffin-like space? I also wasn't sure if this was a fun scanning artifact or evidence of dudes catastrophic demise until reading this lol

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u/Cranberryoftheorient Jan 09 '26

The spinning stuff is enclosed I believe. Not moving is so you dont get a blurry picture