Central Rays
Anatomy Best Visualized
Petrous Ridges Location
Clinical Indications
100

Central Ray for AP Axial Towne skull

What is 2.5" above glabella?

100

PA skull

What is the frontal bone?

100

located inferior to the maxillary sinuses

What is the Waters projection?

100

Bony destruction followed by bony repair

What is Paget's disease?

200

Central Ray for PA (AP) skull

What is exiting / entering glabella?

200

AP Axial Towne skull

What is the occipital bone?

200

appearing to fill the orbits

What is the PA?

200

Bone fragment depressed into cranial cavity

What is a depressed fracture ?

300

Central Ray for Parietoacanthial (Waters) skull

What is entering / exiting acanthion

300

Lateral skull

What is the downside parietal bone?

300

located inferior to the frontal bone

What is the AP Axial Townes ?

300

A fracture through the dense inner portion of the temporal bone

What is a basal skull fracture?

400

Central Ray for lateral skull

What is 2" superior to EAM

400

Parietoacanthial Waters- skull

What is the infraorbital margins (or orbital floors) ?

400

located in the lower 1/3 of the orbits

What is the PA Axial Caldwell? 

400

A fracture causing jagged lines at right angles to long axis of a bone

What is a linear skull fracture ?

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