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advanced imaging modalities Flashcards

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advanced imaging options

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  • MDCT
  • CBCT
  • MRI
  • Positive Contrast Examinations
  • Nuclear Medicine- PET-CT
  • Ultrasound
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MDCT additional names

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  • Multidetector Helical CT
  • Multislice CT
  • Multirow CT
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how was MDCT made

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beatles made lots of money and it was used by the label’s engineering firm for the work of engineer
Godfrey Hounsfield and Allan Cormack

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Dr. Ledley

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developed patent for the first “whole body” CT
scanner for larger patient openings in 1976.
Technically, Ledley’s research resulted in the current MDCT technology

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MDCT compared to xrays

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Greater hard tissue object sensitivity than conventional
x-ray imaging systems
Demonstrates soft tissues

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where is the control console for MDCT

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behind leaded glass, still visibilty of pt

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MDCT beam shape

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fan shaped unlike CBCT

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detectors of MDCT

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multiple present

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CT Basis-image Capture

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Two basis-image capture sequences as the machine
rotates counterclockwise from Position 1 to Position 2
scans routinely capture in the range of 100 to 600 basis
images per rotational scan

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of basis image

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The greater the #
basis images, the
better the
reconstruction
algorithm

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MDCT mechanism

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  • Attenuated beam photon capture in the solid state cadmium tungstate detector affects energy, the degree of ionization and electrical charge
  • Electrical charge is assigned a numerical value (“digitized”) for a given voxel
  • Numerical value is assigned a gray scale value for the part of the object (voxel)
  • Spatial and numerical information is used by imaging software to construct images (visual analogs)
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planes of image reconstruction

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  1. Coronal (frontal)
  2. Axial (transverse)
  3. Sagittal
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MDCT density units

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Hounsfield (density) Units

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windowing

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  • Human eye discriminate up to 40 shades of gray
  • Monitors show up to 256 (8 bit) shades of gray
  • CT data has 4096 (12 bit) shades of gray or 17,024 (14 bit) shades of gray
  • But… the human eye cannot discriminate all the
    shades of gray if displayed
  • So… at the workstation, the window width can be
    narrowed around a selected window level
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why use windowing

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to create different windows to examine different tissues (bone vs soft)

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Hounsfield (density) Units

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High contrast resolution yields details of hard and soft tissue densities

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Hounsfield (density) Units translate to CBCT units?

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Do not translate to CBCT units BECAUSE of variations in:
* FOV
* Exposure
* Position in scanner
* Size of objectc

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Windowing
* the window width can be?
* The narrower window width produces?
* The window level is the?
* A narrow window with varying window levels
selectively windows?

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  • the window width can be narrowed around a selected window level
  • The narrower window width produces images with high contrast
  • The window level is the number at the center of the
    window
  • A narrow window with varying window levels selectively windows hard and soft tissue
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which is bone and which is soft tissue window?

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R: bone
L: soft

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Disadvantages of C.T.

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1) High dose of ionizing radiation
2) Expensive and not as readily available as conventional imaging
3) Sensitive to artifacts from metallic restorations and patient movement

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One of the most important advantages of MR?

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One of the most important advantages MR has is the ability to separate tissues with extracellular water from cellular tissues with intracellular water

good for soft tissues essentially, also no radiation used

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Components of
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
(MRI)

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  1. Magnets
  2. Resonant energy applied to protons which provides a signal to be detected and applied a greyscale value
  3. Imaging from grey scale values
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MRI System components

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Image Capture
Image Processing

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Experiences for the Patient w MRI

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  • Confined space
  • “Clanging” noise
  • Mild vibration and movement
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standard vs open MRI

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standard is much better open was made to make pts more comfortable (image is less clear)

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MRI mechanism

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  • magentic moments of MR active nuclei point in rnadom directions
  • these produce no overall magnetic effect
  • magnetic moments line up with the magnetic feild flux lines= alignment
  • these nuclei are excited and moved from alignment and then realign, time to realign is the recorded signal
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Contrast between soft tissues measurements in MRI

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  • Proton density
  • T1 relaxation time
  • T2 relaxation time
  • flow
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T1 weighted images =

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T1 weighted images = “fat images”
(the surrounding fat produces the image
contrast

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T2 weighted images =

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T2 weighted images = “water images” (normal or abnormal location of free water can be evaluated)

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T1? T2?

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R: T2
L: T1

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where could we used MRI

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TMJ

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Advantages of the M.R.I.

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1) No ionizing radiation
2) Best soft tissue imaging

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Disadvantages of MRI

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  • Cost
  • Availability
  • Time to image
  • Claustrophobic patients
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ABSOLUTE CONTRAINDICATIONS of MRI

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General
* Imbedded ferrous metals

Specific
* Cardiac pacemakers (depending on model)
* Cerebral aneurysm clips
* Cochlear implants
* Intra-ocular metallic foreign bodies

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Concluding Comments on MRI
* Best modality to study?
* most common imaging sequences to evaluate change in soft tissue structures?
* Functional studies of ?

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  • Best modality to study soft tissue disease
  • T1 and T2 most common imaging sequences
    to evaluate change in soft tissue structures
  • Functional studies of fluid dynamics in
    vascular channels
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POSITIVE CONTRAST
EXAMINATIONS uses

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● ARTHROGRAPHY
● SIALOGRAPHY
● UROGRAPHY
● PYELOGRAPHY
● BARIUM SERIES

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Arthrography Tray Armamentarium

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use of LA and dye
epi used to keep dye localized

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Arthrography Injection Technique tmj

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thru EAM

40
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interpreting Arthrography of TMJ Synovial Spaces

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would see two bands of dye seperated by the disk, if not there may be a disk tear

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Sialogram

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Infusion of a radiopaque dye into a salivary gland’s ductal pattern and evaluating the fill pattern with radiographic imaging

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Sialogram
● Technique is used for evaluation of which glands? why?

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● Technique is used for evaluation of the parotid and
submandibular glands as these glands have a primary duct amenable for gland infusion
● Sublingual gland lacks a primary duct; it has multiple ducts excreting into the floor of the mouth therefore it is not suitable for sialographic examination

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Nuclear Medicine Bone Scan

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  • Imaging technique where bone binds a radioisotope Tc99
  • Gamma camera takes images of where the radioisotope has collected
  • Metabolic activity determines degree of radioisotope binding
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Advantages of nuclear medicine

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1) Radioactive isotope concentrates in areas of rapid bone turnover and gives positive response with 10% increase of osteoblastic activity

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Disadvantages nuclear medicine

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1) Expensive and invasive
2) Morphologic changes not imaged
3) Findings not specific to any disease proces

46
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PET CT

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  • Combination of PET and CT is referred to as hybrid or fusion imaging for both hard and soft tissue
  • Superior to plain nuclear medicine alone
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PET CT useful for

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  • location of a tumor
  • followup of chemotherapy or surgery
  • staging dementia, evaluate stroke
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PET - CT FDG Overview

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Positron Emission Tomography- Computed Tomography
» Fluorine-18 (18F) is a positron- emitting radioactive isotope that is used with a glucose analogue for quantitative imaging i
» Computed tomography (CT) is fused or co-registered with the PET scan to aid in interpretation

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PET scan advantages

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Allows functional study of a metabolic process
* Provides a visual image that corresponds with patient anatomy

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PET scan disadvantages

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  • Higher dosimetry
  • High finances
  • Slow imaging; not capable for time sequences > 30 seconds
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ultrasound
* ultrasound uses? not been associated with?
* ultrasound cost?
* ultrasound imaging is useful for the evaluation of?

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  • ultrasound uses non-ionizing sound waves and has
    not been associated with carcinogenesis
  • ultrasound examination is less expensive to conduct
    than CT or MRI
  • ultrasound imaging is useful for the evaluation of
    physiology as well as anatomy (e.g. vascular lesions
    in jaws).
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Ultrasound mechanism

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Ultrasound transducer sends ultrasound pulses into tissue and then receives echoes back with spatial and contrast information on a 2D grayscale image

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