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Best Demonstrates
Positioning Best Demos
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Larynx | Lateral Cervical For Soft Tissue |
| Trachea, Diaphrgmatic Domes, The Heart and Arotic Knob | PA Chest |
| Pleural Effusion | Decubitus Chest |
| Pneumothorax | PA Chest with Expiration |
| Apices without Clavicular Superimposition | Lordotic Chest |
| Interlobar Fissure, Differentiate the Lobes, and Localize Pulmonary Lesions | Lateral Chest |
| Right Lung, The Heart, Descending Aorta, and the Aortic Arch | LAO Chest |
| Left Lung, Left Atrium, Anterior portion of apex of the left ventricle, and right retrocardiac space | RAO Chest |
| Hilum | Lateral Chest |
| Air-Fluid Levels, and accumulations of intrapertioneal air under diaphragm (when PT can stand) | Erect Abdomen |
| Air-Fluid levels, and Accumulations of Intrapertioneal air under diaphragm (When PT cannot Stand) | Decubitus Abdomen |
| Calification of aorta or other vessels, aorta aneurysm, and umbilical Hernias | Lateral Abdomen |
| Bowel Obstruction, Neoplasms, Calcification, Ascites | AP Abdomen |
| Pisiform, Hamulus of Hamate | Carpal Canal or Tunnel View |
| Scaphoid | Ulnar Deviation |
| Olecranon Process | Lateral Elbow |
| Trochlear Notch | Lateral Elbow |
| Elbow Fat Pads | Lateral Elbow |
| Pronator Fat Pads | Lateral Wrist |
| Anterior/Posterior Fracture Displacement in hand | Lateral Hand in Extension/ Flexion |
| Radial Head and Neck, and Capitulum of Humerus | External Oblique Elbow |
| Coronoid Process of Ulna and Trochlea in Profile | Internal Oblique Elbow |
| Greater Tubercle of Humerus Visualized in Profile | AP Shoulder with External Rotation of Humerus |
| Lesser Tubercle visualized in full Profile | AP Shoulder with internal Rotation of Humerus-Lawrence Method |
| Scapulohumeral Joint | Grashey Method-West Point Method |
| Coracid Process of Shoulder | Lawrence(Axillary) Method-Scapular "Y" |
| Intertubercular Grooce | Fisk-Bicipital Groove |
| Scapular Fracture | Lateral Scapula |
| Dislocation of Humerus | Scapular Y Lateral-Inferosuperior Axial Projection |
| Posterior Scapulohumeral Dislocations | Garth Method |
| Supraspinatus Outlet | Neer Method |
| Condition of the Longitudinal Arch of the Foot | Lateral Weight Bearing Foot |
| Heel | Lateral-Axial |
| Talus | AP Mortise |
| Patella Free of Superimposition | Lateral-Sunrise Patella |
| Intercondylar Fossa | Tunnel |
| Proximal Tibiofubar Joint | Internal Oblique Knee |