Artifacts in diagnostic images are unwanted flaws in the image acquisition. The type of artifact usually tells a story of what caused it.
They can be super ready to solve, or it can take days to diagnose.
The arrow shows that vertical line, ignore the tiny red dot, my phone added for some reason. This is from a CT scanner caused by a faulty xray Detector module. There are many different versions, this system has 57 modules that make up the entire assembly.