Written in shorthand
"Nonspecific T2 hyperintense foci" is four words that a radiologist reads as one idea. Spelled out, it is far less frightening than it looks.
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Your radiology report, in plain English
A report is written by one doctor for another, which is why the person it is about often cannot read it. Paste yours and get it back ineveryday words, with the medical terms explained and a short list of questions worth asking at your next appointment.
Why you cannot read it
It was never written for you
A radiology report is a note from the radiologist to the doctor who ordered the scan. It is compressed, hedged and full of terms that carry precise meaning to a clinician and none at all to anyone else. Nobody wrote it badly. It just was not addressed to you.
Hedged on purpose
"Cannot be excluded" and "clinical correlation recommended" are precision, not evasion. They read as bad news and usually are not.
Read in the worst week
Most people meet their report alone, on a phone, days before the appointment where it will be explained. That gap is what this closes.
What comes back
Three things, and nothing more
The tool is narrow by design. It explains what your report says. It does not add an opinion of its own, because an opinion drawn from a page of text without the images behind it would be worth nothing and could easily be worth less than nothing.
A plain summary
Two to four sentences: what was scanned and what the radiologist described, in the words you would use yourself.
The words, defined
A short glossary built from the terms in your own report, not a generic dictionary. Each one explained in a sentence.
Questions to take with you
The things this report makes it sensible to ask. Copy them to your phone and walk into the appointment with them.
Be clear about this
A translation is not a second read
This is the part most tools like this gloss over, so here it is plainly. Understanding your report and knowing whether your report is right are two different problems, and only one of them is solved by reading the text more carefully.
It never sees your images
The tool reads words, not pixels. Anything the first radiologist did not write down is invisible to it, which is exactly where missed findings live.
It gives no verdict
It will not say whether a finding is serious, what caused it or what happens next. Those answers need your history and your scans, and belong to a doctor.
It is not a diagnosis
Nothing here replaces medical advice. Bring the summary and the questions to your own doctor, and let them do the part that requires a doctor.
Privacy
What happens to the text you paste
Our DICOM tools never upload anything, and we are not going to blur the difference here: this one does send your text to our server, because a language model cannot run inside your browser. What it does with it is deliberately narrow, and worth knowing before you paste.
Not stored, not linked to you
The text is passed to the model and the answer comes back. It is not written to a database, not attached to an account and not tied to your identity.
Never used to train models
Neither the report nor the explanation feeds any training set. That holds for this tool and for every scan handled by DocOrbit.
No account, no email
Nothing to sign up for and nothing to unsubscribe from. Delete the name and date of birth from the top of the report and there is nothing personal left to send.
Report simplifier FAQ
What does this actually do?
It rewrites your radiology report in everyday language. You get three things: two or three sentences saying what was scanned and what the radiologist wrote, a short glossary of the medical words that appear in your own report, and a handful of questions the report makes it sensible to ask your doctor. That is the whole tool. It is a translation, not a second read.
Will it tell me whether my result is bad?
No, and that is deliberate rather than a limitation we are apologising for. Nothing in the text of a report is enough to say what it means for you: that takes your images, your history, your symptoms and your previous scans, none of which this tool has. It is also the one thing an AI reading a page of text should never pretend to do. So it explains the words and stops there. If what you want is a judgement, that is what a second opinion from an actual radiologist is.
Is my report stored, or used to train AI?
No to both. Unlike our DICOM tools, this one does have to send your text to our server, because a language model cannot run inside your browser. What happens there is narrow: the text is passed to the model, the answer comes back, and the text is not written to a database, not attached to any account and never used to train models. The plain-language answer is briefly cached so that pasting the same report twice does not cost a second call, and it is keyed by a one-way hash of the text, not the text itself.
Should I remove my name first?
Yes, please do. The tool does not need your name, date of birth or patient number to explain a word, and the model is instructed to skip them if they appear. But the cleanest way to keep personal details out of a system is not to send them, so delete the header before you paste. Everything below it is what matters.
Which part of the report should I paste?
The findings and impression sections. Findings is where the radiologist describes what they saw; impression is their summary, and it is usually the part that worries people most because it is the densest. The technique and clinical history sections are harmless to include but add little. If in doubt, paste the whole thing and let the tool sort it out.
Does it work for CT, ultrasound and PET as well as MRI?
Yes. It works on the text of any radiology or nuclear medicine report, in any of the site's three languages, and it will answer in the language of the page you are on regardless of the language the report is written in. So a Turkish report can be explained in English, or an English one in German.
Is it free? Is there a catch?
It is free and there is no account, no email and no card. There is a daily limit per visitor, which exists because each explanation costs us a small amount to produce and an open endpoint with no ceiling is an invitation. If you hit it, come back tomorrow.
Can a radiologist review the scan itself?
Yes, and that is the actual product this tool sits next to. DocOrbit provides independent second opinions on radiology and nuclear medicine imaging, AI-supported and verified by a board-certified, subspecialty-matched radiologist, typically within 24 to 48 hours. That reads the images, not the report, which is the only way to find something the first read missed.
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Get a second read
Understanding it is step one
Knowing what your report says is not the same as knowing whether it is right. This tool read the words; a second opinion reads the images. Get an independent, AI-supported read from a board-certified, subspecialty-matched radiologist within 24 to 48 hours.