clarks

Question 1

what is a mid saggital plane ?

Answer 1

it the plane that divides the body into right and left halves

Question 2

what is a coronal plane?

Answer 2

it the plane that divides the anterior and posterior parts of the body

Question 3

what is the transverse/axial plane?

Answer 3

it divides the superior and inferior aspects of the body

Question 4

what is the outer canthus?

Answer 4

its the point where the lower and upper eyelid meet laterally

Question 5

what is the infra-orbital margin/ point?

Answer 5

the inferior rim of the orbit located at the lowest point

Question 6

what is the nasion?

Answer 6

it’s the point of articulation of the nasal and frontal bones

Question 7

what is the glabella?

Answer 7

a bony prominence found on the frontal bone immediately superior to the nasion.

Question 8

what is the vertex?

Answer 8

its the highest point of the skull in the mid saggital plane.

Question 9

what is the external occipital protuberance

Answer 9

a bony prominence on the occipital usual coincident with the mid saggital plane

Question 10

what is the eam?

Answer 10

external auditory meatus, the opening of the esr that leads to the auditory canal

Question 11

what is the inter orbital line also known as the inter pupillary line?

Answer 11

its the line that joins two orbits

Question 12

what is the infra orbital line?

Answer 12

its the line that joins two infra orbital line points

Question 13

what is the anthroplpogical baseline ?

Answer 13

its also known as the frankfort line and it passes through the the upper border of the eam line

Question 14

what is the meatal baseline?

Answer 14

its extends from the outer canthus of the ye to the eam and its 10 degrees to anthropological line

Question 15

what is Gy?

Answer 15

grays - energy absorbed in the known mass

Question 16

what is mGy?

Answer 16

mili Grays- average dose to a spefic tissue (organ dose)

dose measured at beam entrance surface used to montior and set DLRs.

Question 17

what is Gycm2?

Answer 17

productof dose in the air and used to monitior dose and set DLRs for examiniations

Question 18

what is the 10 points for image evulation?

Answer 18

1. Patient ID- is the patient id present on image typically three point , name date of birth and hospital number
2. Area of Interest - does the radiograph demonstrate the relevant anatomical area that coincides with the clinical indication.
3. Marker- does the marker match the correct body part is it on the correct side and is it post processed or original
4. correct projection-