Spine
The appropriate CR angle and direction for an AP Axial Cervical Spine.
What is 15-20 degrees cephalad?
The name for the ribs that attach directly to the sternum and are numbered 1-7.
What are the true ribs?
The central-ray entrance point for the AP Pelvis radiograph.
What is midway between the ASIS and the pubic symphysis?
The recommended contrast agent in the case of a perforated bowel.
What is water-soluble iodinated contrast?
The part of the kidney that serves as a filter for blood and is located inside a capsule.
What is the glomerulus?
What is the dens?
The amount of rotation required for a PA Oblique Right Anterior Oblique projection of the sternum.
What is 15-20 degrees?
The type of joint that the hip is.
The drug given to a patient to slow the rate of peristalsis and thereby reduce movement.
What is glucagon?
The recommended amount that the head of the bed be lowered for an AP Pyelogram radiograph as part of a retrograde urography fluoroscopic study.
What is 10-15 degrees?
The anatomy demonstrated on an AP Oblique Lumbar Spine in the Left Posterior Oblique position.
The respiration phase for the ribs below the diaphragm.
What is full expiration?
The position of the IR for the Axiolateral Danelius- Miller hip.
What is parallel with the femoral neck?
The body habitus that presents the stomach in the highest position and almost horizontal.
What is the hypersthenic body habitus?
The degree of rotation required for AP Oblique Radiographs of the urinary system during intravenous urography fluoroscopic examinations.
What is 30-degree rotation?
The neck of the Scottie dog represents this part of the lumbar spine.
What is the pars interarticularis?
The recommended SID to blur the posterior ribs on a PA Oblique projection of the sternum.
The anatomy that should be demonstrated in profile on a properly positioned AP Pelvis radiograph.
What are the greater trochanters?
The opening between the small and large intestine that is the key anatomy reference point for termination of the small bowel series fluoroscopic exam.
What is the ileocecal valve?
The proper projection and position for a male patient during a Voiding Cystourethrogram fluoroscopic examination.
What is AP Oblique Right Posterior Oblique 35-40 degree rotation?
The base of the skull superimposing the dens on an AP Open-Mouth radiograph is due to this positioning error.
What is over/ excessive extension of the skull?
The part of the ribs demonstrated on an AP Oblique Projection.
What is the axillary side of the ribs closest to the IR?
A patient presents to the radiology department with a potential fracture to the left hip, and a recent injury to the right hip as well, causing inability to move either limbs. Determine the necessary projection and method to demonstrate both hips in a lateral.
What is the Modified Axiolateral Clements- Nakayama Method?
The structure that will be air-filled in the PA Oblique Projection Right Anterior Oblique Position in a Upper GI double contrast study.
What is the fundus?
The kidney that is demonstrated on an AP Oblique Radiograph with the patient positioned in a Left Posterior Oblique position during a intravenous urogram fluoroscopic examination.
What is the right kidney or the elevated kidney?