Chapter 1 and 2
Plane that is divided into right and left sections.
What is the sagittal plane of the body?
The __________ plane is parallel to the IR for a lateral CXR.
What is the mid sagittal?
The 3 cardinal principles for radiation safety.
What is time, shielding, and distance?
The largest carpal bone.
What is the capitate?
The projections required for a clavicle exam?
What are AP and Axial?
There are ____ bones in the appendicular skeleton.
What is 126?
What is a pneumothorax?
A.L.A.R.A. stands for this.
What is As Low As Reasonably Achievable?
The carpal most frequently fractured?
The term that describes the medial end of the clavicle?
What is the sternal extremity?
___ projections are required when imaging a joint.
What is 3?
What is 10?
K.U.B. stands for this
What is Kidneys Ureters Bladder?
Anatomy that is visualized with an internal (medial) oblique elbow projection.
What is the trochlea and coronoid process?
Requires a patient rotation of 45-60, medial and lateral borders of scapula are superimposed.
What is the "Y" view?
_________ position has the head higher than the feet?
What is Fowler?
The is perpendicular to the CR when performing an AP Chest in a cart or wheelchair.
What is the image receptor?
The most inferior positioning landmark on the abdomen/pelvis that is typically not palpated.
What is symphysis pubis?
The position the hand is in when the radial tuberosity (tubercle) is seen posteriorly, adjacent to the ulna?
What is thumb down and hand with maximal internal rotation?
Best visualizes bicipital/intertubercular groove.
What is the Grashey (AP Oblique projection)?
The bronchus a food particle is most likely to enter if inhaled accidentally.
What is the right bronchus?
The reason a lateral CXR is performed with the left side up against the IR versus the right?
What is: the heart will be magnified/larger if performed as a right lateral?
The central ray for a KUB.
What is the iliac crest?
The name of a transverse fracture of the distal radius with the distal fragment displaced posteriorly?
What is a Colles' Fracture?
Visualizes the glenoid cavity but with an additional 45 degree caudad angle directed towards the scapulohumeral joint.
What is the Garth (AP Apical Oblique Axial) Projection?