Anatomical Planes
Divides the body into right and left portions.
What is the sagittal plane?
The cavity that houses the brain.
What is the cranial cavity?
This cranial bone forms the forehead.
What is the frontal bone?
The vertebral level where you would find the pulmonary trunk dividing into the right and left pulmonary vessels is?
T4/T5
On CT, this tissue appears white.
What is bone?
Divides the body into anterior (front) and posterior (back).
What is the coronal plane?
The largest body cavity that includes the thoracic and abdominopelvic cavities.
What is the ventral body cavity?
This bony landmark houses the pituitary gland.
What is the sella turcica?
The white matter structure connecting the two cerebral hemispheres.
What is the corpus callosum?
On CT, this tissue appears black.
What is air?
Divides the body into superior (top) and inferior (bottom).
What is the transverse (axial) plane?
This cavity contains the heart and lungs.
What is the thoracic cavity?
: Cervical vertebrae C1 and C2 are called these, with C2 containing the odontoid process.
What are Atlas (C1) and Axis (C2)?
This layer of meninges is closest to the brain.
What is the pia mater?
Hounsfield units of water are this value.
What is 0?
This plane splits the body into equal halves.
What is the midsagittal plane?
Dividing the abdomen into nine regions, this region is located at the top center
What is the epigastric region?
These openings in cervical vertebrae allow passage of vertebral arteries.
What are transverse foramina?
The divisions of the pharynx, from superior to inferior.
What are nasopharynx, oropharynx, laryngopharynx?
Key landmark for whole brain radiation therapy; must include this cranial structure.
What is the cribriform plate?
In axial images (supine), this side of the patient appears on the left of the image.
What is the patient’s right side?
The region of the abdominopelvic model located at the lower right, often clinically important in appendicitis.
What is the right iliac region?
The large opening in the occipital bone through which the spinal cord passes.
What is the foramen magnum?
The bone landmark that corresponds to vertebral level C3 and is relevant for head & neck imaging.
What is the hyoid bone?
The posterior border of the nasopharynx corresponds to this surface landmark.
What is the tragus?