Diagnostic 1
What are the two main bones in your lower leg
What is Tibia and fibula?
First body part xrayed
What is hand?
this is what everyone in the room of an xray should wear
what is a lead apron?
What is posterior?
Imaging of the heart and its function
Echocardiography
Live images for monitoring pregnancy, detecting cysts, stones, masses, and visualizing/measuring internal organs
What is sonography or ultrasound?
Visualizes blood vessels
Angiography
term that means the front of the body
What is anterior?
Charges the hydrogen atoms of the body’s cells and detects the change with a magnetic field to visualize soft tissue in detail
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Visualizes the breast
mammography
during a swallow study, what do they mix to help the radiologist see how the patient is studying?
What is barium?
this word means pertaining to one sides of the body
What is unilateral?
List 2 contraindications for having an MRI
Patient has a pacemaker
Patient has a metal fragment or bullet
Patient has a cochlear implant
Anything said with metal
Uses the gamma rays released from injected radioactive tracers to create 3D images that visualize metabolic processes and blood flow. Often paired with CT, which can be done in the same machine at the same time
Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
a physician who specializes in using medical imaging and radiation to diagnose and treat disease and injury
radiologist
This means pertaining to both sides of the body
What is bilateral?
This person is qualified to take xrays, diagnose and treat.
What is a radiologist?
Uses computers to construct cross-sectional views (slices) of the body from x-ray images, may assemble into a 3D image if needed
What is CT (computed tomography)?
a specialized area of radiology that uses very small amounts of radioactive materials to examine organ function and structure
What is nuclear medicine
The three most common views of xray?
What is PA, Oblique and lateral?