PATIENT CARE
Skull Landmarks
Skull Positioning
Skull Positioning Lines
Wild Card
100
HANDWASHING
What is the number one way to prevent the spread of infection?
100
The Chin.
What is the mental point (or inion)?
100
Both the right and left of this view are done for a Skull series.
What is the Lateral View?
100
Glabellomeatal Line.
What is the line from a point between the eyebrows (glabella) to a point over the opening of the ear (EAM)?
100
The sinuses that are aove the eyebrows.
What are the Frontal Sinuses?
200
Time, distance, shielding
What are the three things a radiographer can do to reduce radiation exposure?
200
The ear opening.
What is the External Acoustic Meatus?
200
PA Axial of the Skull.
What is the Caldwell View?
200
A line drawn from one pupil of the eye to the other.
What is the Interpupillary Line?
200
The Jaw Bone.
What is the Mandible?
300
Asthenic
What is the slender body habitus called?
300
The outer corner of the eye.
What is the Outer Canthus?
300
AP Axial of the Skull.
What is the Townes View?
300
A line drawn from the chin to the opening of the ear.
What is the Mentomeatal Line?
300
The Cheekbone.
What is the Zygoma?
400
external auditory meatus
what is the opening of the ear called?
400
On the forehead - between the eyebrows.
What is the Glabella?
400
For the PA Axial, the x-ray tube is anlgled ______ degrees caudad.
What is 15 degrees?
400
A line from the point just under the nose to the opening of the ear.
What is the Acanthiomeatal Line?
400
Upright views of the Sinuses are done to demonstrate this.
What is Air-Fluid Levels?
500
Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
Who discovered xrays?
500
Just below the nose.
What is the Acanthion?
500
On the Townes view, the x-ray tube is angled _____ degrees ________.
What is 30 degrees Caudad?
500
A line from a point below the eye to the opening of the ear.
What is the Infraorbitomeatal Line?
500
The Pituitary Gland sits in here.
What is the Sella Turcica?
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