Pt Care
Keeping patient information confidential
Providing the patient with considerate and respectful care
What are LMRT responsibilities?
What's in LMRT scope of practice?
moves the electron stream rapidly across the x-ray tube
What is High Potential Difference?
relationship between wavelength and frequency
What is indirectly (inversely) proportional?
Join to form the posterior portion (vertebral arch) of a vertebra
What is pedicle and lamina?
Best for demonstration of the apices of the lungs without bony superimposition
What is AP axial Lordotic position?
Appropriate method to assist a patient with back pain from a supine position into a seated position
Roll the patient into a recumbent lateral position, then assist the patient into a seated position.
Ionization chambers receives a particular charge as x-ray photons travel through it
What is AEC?
low kVp setting produces an image with
Short Scale, HIGH contrast
When using a 35 ´ 43 cm IR, where should the CR enter the patient for an AP projection of the lumbar spine.
What is at the level of the iliac crest in the midline of the patient?
Body habitus is best imaged by placing the 35 ´ 43 cm IR crosswise in the upright grid cabinet
What is Hypersthenic?
Limited operators prohibited from activities that result in direct exposure to the primary X-ray beam
What is occupationally exposed individual?
Unequal magnification of different portions of the same object is termed
What is distortion?
Decreased milliampere seconds, decreased kilovoltage will cause this.
What is quantum mottle?
Pathology term applies to the anterior displacement of one vertebra on another
What is Spondylolisthesis?
Disease or condition may be associated with postoperative complications of open heart surgery.
What is osteomyletitis (fyi, also pneumonia can happen)?
Patient in a recumbent position with the head lower than the feet is said to be in...
What is trendelenburg position?
Converts light into an electrical signal
What is a CCD?
Varies the KVP.
What is the autotransformer?
Positions that best demonstrate IVF's in each spinal section.
What are:
upside LPO/RPO's of c-spine
Laterals of T spine and L spine?
Organs are found within the mediastinum.
What are heart, great vessels, trachea, esophagus, thymus glands?
Intentional Misconduct Types
What is assault, battery and invasion of privacY?
processing technique that allows the X-ray images to be made with uniform density and contrast, regardless of the amount of exposure
What is rescaling?
Factors affects the quantity of scatter radiation fog on a radiograph
What is KVP, Field Size, Patient?
Best position to visualize thoracic zygapophyseaal joints.
What is 70 degree oblique?
Type of CR angle is required for the AP semi axial (alternative lordotic) projection for the lung apices
What is 15° to 20° cephalad?