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Radiographic Proced
ARRT Registry Review Radiographic Procedures
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What position is used to demonstrate the coronoid process? | medial oblique |
| In what skull position will the petrous pyramids fill the orbits? | exact PA |
| What quadrant is the gallbladder located in? | RUQ |
| When barium is in the fundus what position is the patient in? | AP recumbent |
| What two articulations form the ankle mortise? | talotibial and talofibular |
| A deep inspiration will do what to the diaphragm? | Depress the diaphragm to try and get as many ribs as possible above it. |
| AP axial is used to visualize what? | occipital bone |
| What position is used to best demonstrate the sternum? | RAO |
| Spondylolisthesis | Forward slipping of one vertebra on the one below |
| Spondylolysis | Breakdown of the pars interarticularis |
| Why is it important to perform chest x-rays in the erect position? | So the diaphragm can descend to lowest position during inspiration and any air-fluid levels |
| To demonstrate air-fluid levels what two positions must be used? | either erect or decubitus |
| The knee is formed by what? | Proximal tibia the patella and the distal femur |
| What are the two bone parts of the Skull? | Cranial bones and facial bones |
| When looking at foreign bodies in the hand what position is used? | lateral hand |
| Scapular Y view is formed by what? | Humerus, acromion, and coracoid process |
| Trendelenburg position? | Patient recumbent with head lower than the feet |
| The abdomen can be divided into how many quadrants? | Four |
| When a patient is laying on their left side for a lateral lumbar what is something you can do to make the vertebra more parallel to IR? | Put a sponge under the patients waist |
| Avulsion fracture | small bony fragments pulled form a bony process as a result of a forceful pull of the attached ligament or tendon |
| Comminuted fracture | bone is broken or splintered into pieces |
| Greenstick fracture with one cortex buckled and the other intact | Torus |
| Open fracture in which the fractured ends have perforated the skin | Compound |
| The 45-degree oblique projection of the lumbar spine is used to demonstrated what? | Apophyseal joints |
| Parietoacanthal (Waters method) projection demonstrates? | Maxillary sinuses |
| Lumbar articular facets, forming the apophyseal joints are demonstrated in what position? | Oblique position |
| What are the three important fat pads on the elbow? | anterior, posterior, and supinator fat pads |
| The typical vertebra has what two parts? | Body and vertebral arch |
| What are the four body types called? | Hypersthenic, sthenic, hyposthenic, and asthenic |
| The rami are well visualized with? | patient in PA position perpendicular ray or with 20-25 degree cephalad angle |
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