ACR Member Briefly Trades Juveniles for Jaws
In her role as a pediatric radiologist at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, ACR member Cynthia K. Rigsby, M.D, typically deals with some challenging patients. Recently, however, Rigsby has turned her CT scanner to an entirely different type of patient – a longfin mako shark as well as some 87-million-year-old shark fossils.
Rigsby’s latest project was in collaboration with DePaul University Paleontologist Kenshu Shimada, who is studying the loaned collection of preserved sharks and shark fossils.
So how was it working with a different patient group? Well, the sharks “don’t move and don’t cry,” Rigsby said in a March 14 Chicago Sun-Times article.
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