Landmarks
Anatomy
Hodge podge
Positioning
Images
100
The xiphoid process is a landmark associated with what vertebral bodies?
What is T9-T10?
100
What ribs are considered true ribs?
What are the first through seventh ribs?
100
What is the kVp ranges for an RAO of the sternum?
What is 75 to 85 kVp?
100
What is the degree of obliquity for an RAO sternum on an asthenic (thin-chested) patient?
What is 20 degrees?
100
The image below is an __________ of the sternum.
What is the RAO Sternum?
200
This landmark is associated with the joint space between the manubrium and the body of the sternum. It is located at the intervertebral disk space of T4-T5. What is the landmark called?
What is the sternal angle or manubriosternal joint?
200
What is the name of the bone that does not totally ossify until age 40?
What is the xiphoid process?
200
What should you do if the patient cannot lie prone or stand erect for sternum oblique imaging?
What is perform an LPO of the sternum?
200
The patient has pain on their left anterior lower ribs. What images are taken?
What is the PA and RAO?
200
What is #5?
What is the neck of the rib?
300
The suprasternal notch, or manubrial notch, is located at T2-T3. What is the common name associated with this landmark?
What is the jugular notch?
300
What ribs do not have costal cartilage?
What are floating ribs 11 and 12?
300
Why do we place the patient in an RAO for the oblique sternum?
What is to project the sternum over the shadow of the heart?
300
When you are placing a patient into a 10 to 15 degree LAO, are you imaging the right or left SC joint?
What is the left SC joint?
300
What is letter B?
What are the false ribs?
400
The inferior rib (costal) angle, or inferior costal margin, is a landmark associated with what vertebral bodies?
What is L2-L3?
400
What is the name of the end of the rib that articulates with the thoracic vertebrae?
What is the posterior or vertebral end?
400
The costotransverse joints: what is the classification, mobility type, and movement for these joints?
What are synovial, diarthrodial, and plane (gliding) movement?
400
If the RAO sternum x-ray shows the sternum is too close to the spine or over the spine, what must you do on the repeat?
What is increase the patient's obliquity?
400
What rib is letter A?
What is the 3rd Rib?
500
The bony thorax is widest at the lateral margins of what ribs?
What are the 8th and 9th ribs?
500
What is the name of the rib end that is 3-5 inches higher or more superior?
What is the posterior or vertebral end?
500
The SC joints: what is the classification, mobility type, and movement type of these joints?
What are synovial, diarthrodial, and plane (gliding) movements?
500
When imaging ribs in a posterior oblique:
Is the patient face up or face down, and are you turning the patient's affected side toward or away from the IR?
What is face up and toward the IR?
500
The image below is an __________ of the _______ joint.
What is an RAO of the right SC joint?