Anatomy
Positioning
Procedure Adaptation
Evaluation of Anatomic Structures
Sudden Death Anatomy
100
Body habitus with a stomach and gallbladder that is low, vertical, and near the midline.
What is asthenic?
100
The AP axial projection (Towne method) of the skull best demonstrates:
What is occipital bone.
100
Adaptation utilized in cases of possible GI perforation.
What is gastrografin?
100
Number of ribs seen on a well inspired PA projection of the lungs.
What is 10?
100
Name the tarsals of the foot.
What is the calcaneus, talus, navicular, cuboid, lateral cuneiform, intermediate cuneiform, and medial cuneiform?
200
Type of joint that permits motion in one plane only.
What is a hinge joint?
200
For this exam, the central ray enters the proximal interphalangeal joint.
What is the lateral projection of the first/great toe?
200
This increase in technique is required for a medium sized dry plaster cast on an upper limb.
What is 5-7 kV?
200
LPO and RPO positions for a barium enema demonstrates these.
What is hepatic flexure and splenic flexure, respectively.
200
Names the bones of the orbit.
What is the frontal, sphenoid, zygomatic, ethmoid, palatine, lacrimal, and maxilla?
300
The male pubic arch has this angle.
What is acute?
300
This projection best demonstrates the intervertebral foramina of the cervical spine.
What is the lateral projection?
300
Conditions that do not require technique adjustment.
What are ulcers, diverticula, and simple fractures? (They do not affect the thickness or alter the composition of the body tissues and cause no structural or functional changes.)
300
Indications for obtaining a skeletal survey.
What is suspected non accidental trauma, skeletal dysplasia, syndromes, metabolic disorders, and neoplasms?
300
Name the synovial joints.
What is hinge, pivot, saddle, ball and socket, gliding, condyloid?
400
Names the nine regions of the abdomen.
What is the right hypochondriac, epigastric, left hypochondriac, right lumbar, umbilical, left lumbar, right iliac, hypogastric, and left iliac?
400
Air/barium for the RAO position for the upper GI exam.
What is air in the fundus, and barium in the body and antrum?
400
These oblique projections detect subluxations and dislocations of the cervical spine if head and neck are immobilized in a trauma situation.
What is AP axial trauma, LPO, RP, with the CR at 15 degrees cephalad.
400
Exam used to measure the length of long bones.
What is orthorentgenography?
400
Name the carpal bones.
What is hamate, triquetral, pisiform, lunate, scaphoid, capitate, trapezium, trapezoid?
500
The most proximal structure on the ulna.
What is olecranon process?
500
Projection that best demonstrates the scaphoid fat pad.
What is the PA and oblique wrist?
500
AEC compensation to pathology.
What is adjusting the exposure automatically by increasing mAs, rather than kVp?
500
These 4 soft tissue structures of joints are often demonstrated with arthrographic exams.
What is menisci, ligaments, articular cartilage, and bursae?
500
Blood flow cycle through the heart.
What is the inferior and superior vena cavae and coronary arteries drain from the body into the right atrium, through the tricuspid valve into the right ventricle, through the pulmonary valve to the pulmonary trunk to the pulmonary arteries, into the lungs, to the pulmonary veins into the left atrium, through the mital valve into the left ventricle, through the aortic valve and into the ascending and descending aortae.
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