lecture 2 Flashcards
Any technique that produces an image in the form of a plane through the body with structures cut across.
Cross-sectional imaging
Viewed from below, looking towards the head
Axial or transverse plane
Looking at the patient from the side
Sagittal plane
Front view
Spine is behind the sternum
Coronal plane
Inferior to to the AP window
pulmonary arteries and veins
Caudal to the AP window
Left pulmonary artery
anterolateral of the left mainstem bronchus
Left pulmonary artery
just posterior to the ascending aorta
Right pulmonary artery
passed superior and descends posterior to the left mainstem bronchus
LPA
subcarinal in location
left atrium
Can also observe the thickness of the heart chambers
2 chamber heart level
with the formation of the right and left mainstem bronchus
Carina
hanging down like the roots of a tree
Hepatic vein
remnant of the left umbilical vein
Ligamentum teres
Y-shaped
Right portal vein