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Understand your MRI, CT, X-ray or ultrasound report

Upload the report from your patient portal, or photos of the images. A few minutes later every finding comes back as a plain sentence, with how urgent it is and what to ask your doctor.

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  • Your written report (a PDF or a patient-portal screenshot) gives the most complete reading
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Sample report · knee MRI

What the radiologist wrote

FINDINGS:

  1. 1.Oblique tear of the posterior horn of the medial meniscus.
  2. 2.Grade 2 chondromalacia patellae.
  3. 3.Small joint effusion.

What ReadingScan tells you

  • Small tear in the inner knee cushion

    Worth monitoring

    An 8 mm tear at the back of the cushion on the inner side of your knee. Usually treated with physical therapy first.

  • Early cartilage softening behind the kneecap

    Worth monitoring

    The cartilage behind your kneecap is a little thinner than it should be. Still covering the bone.

  • Small amount of fluid in the joint

    No concern

    A little extra fluid in the joint. A normal reaction to the two findings above.

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Not medical advice · Not for emergencies

Sample report

What a finished report looks like

This one is a knee MRI. Reports for X-rays, CT, ultrasound and PET scans are laid out the same way.

Radiology report

Oblique tear of the posterior horn of the medial meniscus reaching the inferior articular surface, approximately 8 mm. Small joint effusion.

01 · What did they find?Example

Worth monitoring. Bring it up at your next appointment.

In plain English

The cushion on the inner side of your knee has a small tear at the back, about 8 mm long. Tears like this usually come with age rather than one injury, and the rest of the report is built around it.

Detailed findings

  • Oblique tear, medial meniscus posterior horn
  • Grade 2 chondromalacia patellae
  • Small joint effusion
02 · What you were worried about

About your concern

Will I need surgery for this?

Probably not. For a small tear that came with age, physical therapy comes first. Surgery comes up if the knee locks or a few months of rehab leave you no better.

What this exam rules out

  • A torn ACL — The ACL is intact, with normal tension and signal along its whole length.
  • A broken bone — No fracture and no bone bruising in the thigh bone, shin bone or kneecap.
03 · What to ask

Questions to ask your doctor

  1. Is physical therapy the right first step for this tear?
  2. How many weeks of physical therapy before we judge whether it is working?
04 · Still unsure?

Follow-up chat

Can I keep running with this tear?

R

Your report describes a small tear with no displaced fragment, which usually does not lock the knee. Many people keep up low-impact exercise during physical therapy. When to go back to running is for the doctor who examines you to decide.

Ask a follow-up about this report…

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Illustrative example — not a real patient's report.See the complete sample report

  1. 01 · What did they find?

    Each finding in one plain sentence.

    "Tear of the posterior horn of the medial meniscus" comes back as "a small tear at the back of the cushion on the inner side of your knee". Terms you will see again go in a glossary at the end.

  2. 02 · What you were worried about

    It answers the worry you typed in first.

    Before you upload, you can write down what scares you. The report starts with that, then lists what the radiologist checked for and did not find.

  3. 03 · What to ask

    Questions to take to your appointment.

    Written from your findings rather than a generic checklist, so a short follow-up visit covers what you actually need to know.

  4. 04 · Still unsure?

    Ask follow-up questions in chat.

    The chat already has your report open, so there is nothing to paste. It comes with every full report.

Radiology report

Oblique tear of the posterior horn of the medial meniscus reaching the inferior articular surface, approximately 8 mm. Small joint effusion.

Knee MRI · report PDF
Example
Worth monitoring. Bring it up at your next appointment.

Worth monitoring. Bring it up at your next appointment.

In plain English

In plain English

The cushion on the inner side of your knee has a small tear at the back, about 8 mm long. Tears like this usually come with age rather than one injury, and the rest of the report is built around it.

Detailed findings

Detailed findings

  • Oblique tear, medial meniscus posterior horn
  • Grade 2 chondromalacia patellae
  • Small joint effusion
About your concern

About your concern

Will I need surgery for this?

Probably not. For a small tear that came with age, physical therapy comes first. Surgery comes up if the knee locks or a few months of rehab leave you no better.

What this exam rules out

What this exam rules out

  • A torn ACL — The ACL is intact, with normal tension and signal along its whole length.
  • A broken bone — No fracture and no bone bruising in the thigh bone, shin bone or kneecap.
Questions to ask your doctor

Questions to ask your doctor

  1. Is physical therapy the right first step for this tear?
  2. How many weeks of physical therapy before we judge whether it is working?
Follow-up chat

Follow-up chat

Can I keep running with this tear?

R

Your report describes a small tear with no displaced fragment, which usually does not lock the knee. Many people keep up low-impact exercise during physical therapy. When to go back to running is for the doctor who examines you to decide.

Ask a follow-up about this report…
Illustrative example — not a real patient's report.See the complete sample report

Scan types

Which scan did you have?

Each exam has its own page, with the terms that come up most in those reports.

  • Read and explain your X-ray

    Chest, bone, spine and dental X-rays.

    • Pleural effusion
    • Cardiomegaly
    • Disc space narrowing

  • Analyze your CT report online

    Chest, abdomen, head, spine and coronary CT.

    • Ground-glass opacity
    • Pulmonary nodule
    • Kidney stones

  • Get your MRI report explained

    Brain, spine, knee and shoulder MRI.

    • Meniscal tear
    • Disc herniation
    • White matter changes

  • Understand your ultrasound report

    Abdominal, pelvic, thyroid and vascular ultrasound.

    • Thyroid nodule
    • Gallstones
    • Ovarian cyst

  • Understand your PET scan report

    FDG, PSMA, lymphoma response and brain PET.

    • FDG avid
    • SUVmax
    • Deauville score

How ReadingScan reads your report

What happens between your upload and your report.

Step 1

Files we can’t read are turned away first.

A blurry photo, a microscope eyepiece shot or a handwritten note is refused before any AI runs, and it does not use up a report. We don’t guess from an image we can’t read.

Step 2

It describes the image before it interprets it.

The model has to write down what it sees before it is allowed to name a finding. That first description is saved with your report, so the reasoning can be checked later.

Step 3

Every report has the same parts.

Findings, what they mean, what the scan ruled out, and questions for your doctor. With a fixed structure, a missing section is easy to spot.

Step 4

The exam date comes from your document.

Not from the model’s memory. Your files are encrypted, never sold, and never used to train AI models.

ReadingScan promise: we never guess. No guess, no charge.ReadingScan promise: we never guess. No guess, no charge.

When we can’t read something with confidence, we say so and give the report back.

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