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ARRT Registry Review Radiographic Procedures

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