My day starts early. I start off in a cabinet and get taken out to have liquid poured in me somewhere in the CT department and handed to a patient with a simple instruction:"Please finish this over the next hour. "Seems straightforward enough. But if you've worked in CT for any length of time, you know my journey isn't always that simple.

Every department has one. The therapist everyone goes to with questions. The person who remembers why a protocol changed five years ago. The one who can spot a potential setup issue before anyone else notices it. The therapist who always seems to know what to do when something unexpected happens.

For years, breast arterial calcifications (BAC) have been a familiar finding on screening mammograms. They were noted, recognized as benign from a breast cancer perspective, and often received little attention beyond that. Today, the conversation is changing.