CH 1
Terminology, Positioning, and Imaging Principles
Terminology, Positioning, and Imaging Principles
The number of bones in the adult axial skeleton.
What is 80?
The official name for the shoulder blade.
What is scapula?
The full name for a KUB image.
What is Kidney, Ureter, Bladder?
The first metacarpophalangeal (MCP) joint.
What is the thumb?
The official name of the area of the armpit.
What is the Axilla?
The freely moveable joint classification.
What is diarthrodial?
The positioning landmark located at T2/T3.
What is jugular notch?
The liver, gall bladder, pancreas, and spleen.
What are accessory organs?
The most frequently fractured carpal bone.
What is Scaphoid?
The external rotation projection of the humerus.
What is the AP Proximal Humerus Projection?
The plane that separates the human body into left and right parts.
What is the sagittal plane?
The condition of pneumothorax.
What is a collapsed lung?
The organs behind or posterior in the abdomen of human body.
What are Retroperitoneal organs
The most common wrist movement that allows us to see the scaphoid.
What is Ulnar Deviation?
The humerus projection with the greater tubercle anterior.
What is the Lateral Proximal Humerus Projection?
The body position where the feet are higher than the head.
What is Trendelenburg?
The chest x-ray position with the left shoulder on the wall bucky and arms raised overhead.
What is lateral position?
The landmark that is located at L4-L5.
What is the iliac crest?
The PIP joint.
What is Proximal Interphalangeal Joint?
The inferosuperior axial projection.
What is the Lawrence Method?
The minimum amount of projections when joints are in the prime interest area.
What is 3 projections?
The two routine chest images.
What is PA and Lateral?
The routine abdomen x-ray.
What is AP supine (KUB)?
The modified Roberts Method.
What is the AP Axial Thumb Projection?
The routine shoulder projections.
What are AP, Grashey, Y, and Axillary?