RadiologyQuizLabSHOULDER MRI ANATOMY · OBLIQUE PLANES
Shoulder MRI anatomy
Shoulder MRI anatomy centres on the rotator cuff and labrum. Practise naming the structures on real MRI slices — the fastest way to make shoulder anatomy stick. Free, no account needed.
Try it now — read the slice, name the arrowed structure:
SAG · T1TE 12 · TR 500Which anatomical structure is arrowed?
Single answer — type the structure
Correct — corpus callosum
The rotator cuff
Identify the four rotator-cuff muscles and tendons — supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres minor and subscapularis — on the oblique coronal and sagittal planes. The supraspinatus is where most attention goes.
Labrum and capsule
Follow the glenoid labrum around the socket on axial images, with the biceps-labral complex superiorly. The capsule and glenohumeral ligaments complete the stabilisers.
Biceps and bony landmarks
Trace the long head of biceps through the bicipital groove, and orient with the humeral head, glenoid and acromion. Naming these on real images is what practice builds.
Keep practising by region
Move through the rest of imaging anatomy one region at a time — brain and body CT, cardiac and musculoskeletal MRI — and let each explanation fix the structure in memory.
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