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
fetal mesentery remnant; divides the lobe into medial and lateral segments
Falcifiorm ligament
Splenic vein joins the smv to form the
Main pV
Characterization of the extrahepatic bile duct
PTCA
To help locate the pancreas find first the
3rd portion of the duodenum (DIII)
anterior to the aorta and IVC and posterior to the SMV and SMA
D3
Both kidneys are also seen along the origin of the sma
PANCREATIC BODY INDEX
can be seen in association with the left kidney and the spleen
pancreatic tail
passes over the aorta to flow into the ivc
Left renal vein
has more folds and located in the LUQ
Jejunum
Projects from the cecum
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