X-RAY THUNDERDOME

Anatomy

100

What is the lowest portion of the lung called?

Costophrenic angle

200

What bones compose of the mortise ankle?

Tibia, Fibula, and Talus

300

What is the hole at the head of the femur known as?

Fovea Capitis Femoris

400

What two bone separates the frontal bone from articulating with the temporal bone?

Parietal and Sphenoid (Greater)

500

What bone consist of the styloid process in the skull?

Temporal Bone

Random(At your own risk)

100

What patient position is when the patient is recumbent and head positioned at a lower level than the feet?

Trendelenburg

200

Apex of the heart is formed by

Left ventricle

300

Would Ascites require an increase or decrease in exposure facors?

Increase

400

Which period of development is the fetus most radiosensitive?

First Trimester

500

The principal function of x-ray beam filtration is to?

Reduce the exposure of patients to low-energy x-ray

Central Rays

100

Where is the central ray for AP Neutral Shoulder?

CR perpendicular, to 3/4" (2 Cm) inferior to coracoid process

200

What angle is the CR for an Apical AP Axial Shoulder?

30 degrees caudad entering 1/2" above the coracoid process

300

What is the central ray for an AP Knee?

Bonus: What angle for thick thighs?

1/2" Distal to the apex of patella

Bonus Answer: 3-5 Degrees cephalad

400

What is the central ray for a unilateral frog-leg: Lateral Hip?

CR perpendicular to the midfemoral neck, 1-2 inch medial from the ASIS and 3-4 inches distal. 

500

Central ray for an oblique T-Spine

Central Ray perpendicular to center of IR to T7, 3-4 inch below the jugular notch.

Physics

100

What two interactions occur in the x-ray tube? Specifically when the emission of electrons is shot from the cathode to the anode. 

Bremsstrahlung and Characteristic

200

What three interactions occur organically?

Coherent/Classical, Compton, and Photoelectric

300

What three things happen during attenuation?

Transmission, Absorption, and Scatter

400

What equipment piece in the x-ray tube is composed electromagnets that induce turning of the rotor?

Stator

500

Attenuation depends on four things

Part thickness, Tissue density, Atomic Number, and Beam Energy

History

100

The X-ray was discovered by who? 

Wilhelm Rontgen

200

When was X-ray discovered? Exact date, Ex: Nov. 8th, 1985

Nov. 8th, 1895

300

The first C-arm was introduced what year?

1955

400

What year did Rontgen win the Nobel Prize in physics?

1901

500

The photoelectric effect was discovered by who and when?

Heinrich Hertz in 1887