Show:
Chapter 1 Anat. Term. & Positioning
Chapter 2 Image Quality, Digital
Chapter 3 Chest
Chap. 4 Abdomen
Chap. 5 Upper Limb
100
Term for back or posterior portion of the body
What is dorsal?
100
The amount of kVp increase that is equivalent to doubling the mAs
What is 15%?
100
Number of ribs to demonstrate for a chest x-ray with correct inspiration
What is 10-11?
100
Centering location for AP erect or lateral decubitus abdomen
What is 2 inches above the iliac crest?
100
CR location for PA and oblique hand images –
What is over the 3rd MCP joint?
200
Number of bones in the appendicular skeleton
What is 126?
200
The cardinal rules of radiation protection
What is time, distance, shielding?
200
Requirement to demonstrate air/fluid levels in the lung
What is a horizontal beam?
200
Most commonly used anatomic landmark for abdominal imaging
What is the iliac crest?
200
Projections used for imaging the forearm
What is AP and lateral?
300
The space between the growth centers of a bone
What is the epiphyseal plate?
300
Term for changing or enhancing the electronic image to improve the diagnostic quality
What is What is post processing?
300
Request form says to r/o right pneumothorax – name the patients position
What is left lateral decubitus?
300
Position of the patient for a decubitus abdomen
What is left lateral?
300
Joint movement for the IP joints
What is ginglymus?
400
The four different types of body habitus beginning with the smallest
What is asthenic, hypersthenic, sthenic, and hypersthenic?
400
Annual dose limit for technologists
What is 5 rem per year?
400
Number of lobes in the right lung
What is 3?
400
Medical term for stomach –
What is gastro?
400
Carpal bone that articulates with the lateral radius
What is scaphoid?
500
Percentage of population that is sthenic
What is 50%?
500
The 6 image quality factors for digital imaging
What is are brightness (replaces density), contrast, resolution, distortion, exposure index, and noise?
500
Best method (radiograph) to diagnose a small pneumothorax
What is expiration CXR?
500
Structure that produces bile
What is the liver?
500
Projection of the elbow that demonstrates the radial head without superimposition
What is lateral/external oblique?