Chapter 9: Other Imaging Modalities Flashcards
The other imaging modalities include:
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
Conventional tomography:
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
Focal plane tomography:
- 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
Conventional tomography: what are the two objects involved
X-ray tube and radiographic film
The fixed axis in the conventional tomography is
Fulcrum
Principle of conventional tomography:
Moves in opposite directions simultaneously
Where is the X-ray tube and film positioned in conventional tomography?
On opposite sides of the fulcrum (located within the body’s plane of interest)
The images of objects outside the focal plane are?
Blurred
Tomographic layer is the zone of?
Sharp
Blurring in conventional tomography depends on?
- structures lie far from FP
- FP lies far from the film
- distance of the tube
Indications of conventional tomography?
- frontal plane: maxillary sinus, ethmoid bone, conchae
- sagittal plane: TMJ
Computed tomographic scanning (CT):
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
What do the detectors in CT scan do?
Measure the number of photons that exit the patient
CT scan produces what kind of image?
Cross sectional
What are the two objects involved in CT scanning?
- X-ray tubes and detectors
X-ray tubes in CT scans:
- tubes with rotating anodes
- high heat capacity
- 120 kVp/ 200-800 mA
- beam collimated to a thin FAN beam
Detectors of CT scans:
- array of solid detectors
- ceramic or crystal
- photodiode
- the signal from the detector is amplified, digitised, and sent to a computer for analysis