Chapter 9: Other Imaging Modalities Flashcards

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The other imaging modalities include:

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6:
1. Conventional tomography
2. Computed tomographic scanning (CT scan)
3. Cone beam conventional tomography (CBCT)
4. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
5. Ultrasonography
6. Sialography

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Conventional tomography:

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Radiographic technique designed to image a slice or plane of tissue

  • it’s accomplished by blurring the images of structures lying outside the plane of interest through the process of motion
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Focal plane tomography:

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  • in conventional tomography
  • same as focal trough
  • tomography by simultaneously moving the xray generator and xray detector so as to keep a consistent exposure of only the plane of interest during image acquisition
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Conventional tomography: what are the two objects involved

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X-ray tube and radiographic film

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5
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The fixed axis in the conventional tomography is

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Fulcrum

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Principle of conventional tomography:

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Moves in opposite directions simultaneously

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Where is the X-ray tube and film positioned in conventional tomography?

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On opposite sides of the fulcrum (located within the body’s plane of interest)

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The images of objects outside the focal plane are?

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Blurred

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9
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Tomographic layer is the zone of?

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Sharp

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Blurring in conventional tomography depends on?

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  • structures lie far from FP
  • FP lies far from the film
  • distance of the tube
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Indications of conventional tomography?

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  • frontal plane: maxillary sinus, ethmoid bone, conchae
  • sagittal plane: TMJ
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Computed tomographic scanning (CT):

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X-ray tube that emits a finely collimated FAN shape xray beam directed through a patient to a series of scintillation detectors or ionisation chambers

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What do the detectors in CT scan do?

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Measure the number of photons that exit the patient

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14
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CT scan produces what kind of image?

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Cross sectional

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15
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What are the two objects involved in CT scanning?

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  • X-ray tubes and detectors
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X-ray tubes in CT scans:

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  • tubes with rotating anodes
  • high heat capacity
  • 120 kVp/ 200-800 mA
  • beam collimated to a thin FAN beam
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Detectors of CT scans:

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  • array of solid detectors
  • ceramic or crystal
  • photodiode
  • the signal from the detector is amplified, digitised, and sent to a computer for analysis
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18
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Image reconstruction of CT scan:

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  • photons recorded by receptors
  • cross sectional images constructed by computer algorithms
  • CT image is recorded as individual VOXELS
  • 512 x 512 pixels or 1024 x 1024 pixels
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Advantages of CT scans:

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  • eliminates superimposition
  • high contrast resolution
  • multi planar reformatted image: from a single CT can see axial, coronal , and sagital planes
  • 3D images
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Disadvantages of CT scans:

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  • expensive, maintenance
  • metallic restorations
  • patient motionless during examination
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Applications of CT scans:

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  • infections
  • osteomyelitis
  • cysts
  • tumours
  • maxillofacial trauma
  • implantology
    -maxillary sinuses
  • salivary glands
  • TMJ
  • cleft palate
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Cone beam computed tomography (CBCT):

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  • performed using a rotating platform
  • divergent cone shape or pyramidal source of radiation is directed through the region of interest and the residual attentuated radiation beam is projected onto a detector on the opposite side
  • the xray source and detector rotate around a rotation center
23
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Difference between cone (CBCT) and fan shaped (CT)

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  • cone: reduces range, narrow xray beam by reducing ET, more accurate images
24
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ET is up to ___% less than scanning time

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50

25
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The dimensions of the filed of view depend on the ?

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Detector size and shape, projection geometry and collimation

26
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CBCT takes ____ seconds and ____ individual projections frames

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20, 600

27
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Patient selection criteria for CBCT

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Radiation doses higher than other dental Radiographic procedures

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Specific applications of CBCTs:

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  • implant site assessments
  • endodontics, orthodontics + 3D cephalometry
  • impacted teeth
  • TMJ
  • maxilofacial pathoses
  • treatment planning and virtual simulations
29
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Strengths of CBCTs:

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  • size and cost: available for dental office
  • fast acquisition: 30 seconds
  • submilimeter resolution
  • relatively low radiation doses
  • interactive analysis
30
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Limitations of CBCTs:

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Image noise
Poor soft tissue contrast

31
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

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Patient is placed inside a large magnet, this magnetic field causes the nuclei of many atoms in the body to align with the magnetic field
Scanner directs a radio frequency pulse into the patient, causing hydrogen nuclei to absorb energy, the stored energy is then released and detected as a signal in the coil in the scanner, the signal is then used to construct an image

32
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Is MRI an ionising technique?

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No

33
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Which of the imaging modalities is used in TMJ in dentistry ?

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MRI

34
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Advantages of MRI?

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Soft tissue best contrast resolution
No ionising radiation is involved
Multi planar imaging without reorienting the patient

35
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Disadvantages of MRI

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Long imaging times
Expensive
Patients with ferromagnetic metals (cardiac pacemakers, cerebral aneurysm clips)

36
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Applications of MRI:

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  • soft tissue conditions
  • disk in TMJ
  • tumours
  • lymph nodes
  • mandibular nerve
37
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Ultrasonography:

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  • no radiation
  • based on sound waves that acquire images in real time without ionising radiation
  • scanners generate electrical impulses that are then converted into ultra high frequency sound waves by a transducer (electrical energy into sonic energy)
  • sonic waves reflect toward the transducer
38
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Anechoic tissues:

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Free from echo
Don’t produce signals
Appear black
Fluid filled cyst

39
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Hypo echoic tissues:

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Produce a weak signal

40
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Hyper echoic tissues:

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Produce intense signals , ligaments , skin, needles, or catheters, appear bright

41
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Which of the 6techniques are non ionising

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MRI
Ultrasonography

42
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Sialography:

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  • Radiographic examination of the salivary glands, involves injecting contrast medium into the salivary duct of a single gland
43
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Indications of sialography:

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  • functional integrity of the salivary glands
  • obstructions
  • ductal patterns
  • Intra glandular neoplasms
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Sialography procedure :

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  • duct is dilated using lacrimal probes
  • a cannula is inserted into the duct
  • radio opaque fluid (iodine) is injected
  • a series of radiographs are taken to determine the flow of the fluid, identify obstructions, and the rate of fluid excretion from the gland