Anatomy
Anatomical plane that divides body into an anterior and posterior half.
What is the Midcoronal Plane?
When a patient is lying down on their belly, they are in this position.
What is the prone position? What is the PA position?
Where x-rays are made.
What is the focal spot?
What does the medical abbreviation DNR stand for?
Do Not Resuscitate!
As Low As Reasonably Achievable
Body habitus that pushes organs up and across
What is hypersthenic?
The Lateral Elbow projection demonstrates this part of the elbow.
What is the olecranon process?
Dual focus or double focus tubes have ____.
What are two filaments?
This term means a patient who can walk.
What are the Cardinals Rules of radiation protection?
Time, Distance, Shielding
Vertebra located at the level of the inferior angles of the scapula
What is T7?
Open phalanges joints demonstrates what in a PA Hand projection?
That the hand was placed flat on the IR.
The term used to describe unsharp edges of tiny radiographic details.
What is penumbra?
What is palpate?
In this interaction with matter, the energy of an incident photon is completely absorbed.
What is photoelectric absorption?
The parts that form the "Y" in the Shoulder Scapular Y projection
What are the acromion and the coracoid process?
Perpendicular
This is utilized as a measurement for spatial resolution in a given image.
What is Line Pairs per cm/mm?
O2 mask generally used on infants only.
What is the oxygen hood?
Radiation that passes through the collimator is also know as the useful beam. What is this beam called?
What is the primary beam?
"Some Lovers Try Positions That They Can't Hold" is designed to memorize what?
Carpal bones
What projection shows slight superimposition of the 1st and 2nd metatarsal bases?
What is the Oblique Foot Projection?
The interaction that causes the majority of the subject contrast in the image.
What is the photoelectric effect?
The tissue in the human body most sensitive to hypoxia.
What is the brain?
When radiation is safely used in the imaging of patients. the benefit of the exposure can be ______ and the potential risk of biologic damage is _____.
Maximized/increased, minimized/decreased