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What is the most popular imaging modality in the US?

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Film

*this is on the verge of changing

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If the pt is bumped during imaging, what results?

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Big wave - motion artifact

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What is one difference between Cone Beam CT (CBCT) and pano?

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CBCT has NO magnification

Pano has magnification

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What has more radiation dose, Panoramic or FMX?

*how much is the dose?

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FMX

175 microsievers

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FMX with Round Collimation and Film has 175 microsievers.

How much with Rectangular Collimation and Digital or F speed film?

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1/5 the Radiation

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What are the advantages to a Pano? (3)

What is the drawback?

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one shot overview, less radiation, easy to take

less detail

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Pano’s are fast and convenient but won’t show what?

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Interproximal caries

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PSP is how many steps?

Digital is how many steps?

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2 step process

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PSP goes into processing machine that uses what?

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Laser beam

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In Direct Digital imaging (the CMOS or CCD sensors), what fluoresces when exposed to x-rays and forms visible light radiographic image?

*this is on the active side of the sensor

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Scintillator screen

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What is on the active side of a metal oxide semi-conductor sensor?

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Scintillator

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What couples the scintillator screen (fluorescing) to the CMOS chip to reduce image noise?

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Fiberoptic face plate

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What is a Matrix of Individual Blocks?

What technology uses this?

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Voxels (volume elements)

CT (computed tomographic scanning)

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Voxels (volume elements) are made up of square images of matrix called ______

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pixels

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In either CBCT or a Pano, you need to put the pt where?

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In the Focal Layer

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What is the universal way to store/transfer images in medicine?

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Dicomm

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A Pano is made with what shape of beam?

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Vertical, narrow beam

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A Pano rotates around what?

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Focal plane/Focal trough

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Describe the center of Rotation in a Pano:

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moves continuously as tube/receptor rotate around pt

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T/F
The closer an anatomic structure is positioned to the center of the trough, the more clearly it is imaged on resulting radiograph

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True

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Film, PSP, Digital Receptors - which are similar?

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Film and PSP similar

Digital receptor black box solid state

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If the mandible is positioned Anterior of the bite block, what happens to the image?

If Posterior?

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Minification

Magnification

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Rotate a pts head toward the Right, which side is minified, which is magnified?

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Right side minified *rotated further away

Left side magnified

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Excessive downward chin tip will produce what in a Pano?

Excessive upward chin tip will produce what in a Pano?

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Too much “smile”

Frown

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If a pts head is rotated in a Pano, which side is Minified?
Side in direction of rotation
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What are the 6 standard Maxillofacial Projections?
Posteroanterior (PA) Lateral Skull Occipitomental (Waters) Reverse - Towne Submentovertex Lateral Oblique
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Name 3 structures for which the Occipitomental (Waters) Projection is indicated?
Sinuses Nasal cavity Coronoid process
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Occipotomental (Waters) Projection elevates the canthomeatal line ____ degrees
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What projection is indicated for condylar neck and posterior wall of the maxillary sinus? (also get in submentovertex)
Reverse-Towne projection *head down, open jaw
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What projection travels is taken vertically through the head?
Submentovertex projection
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What projection is good for abnormal premolar/molar region and inferior border of the mandible?
Lateral Oblique (body projection)
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What projection is good for abnormalities of the ramus/condyle region and 3rd molars?
Lateral Oblique (ramus projection)
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What projection is good for the Mandibular Ramus?
Mandibular Oblique projection
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Describe Submentovertex view: Describe Waters view:
travels vertically head up (NWA look)
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Pano comes up at 12 degrees - this angle aka... This causes horizontal structures to be displayed how?
parallax vertically
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A ghost image is more ____ than its real counterpart
blurred
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What area in a Pano produces a particular angulated ghost image to the contralateral side?
Mandibular Ramus
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What 2 forms of imaging have zero radiation?
MRI and Ultrasound
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Basic guidelines for imaging children, radiographs 1st visit, Posterior bitewing intervals if Caries present? If caries not present? Adult caries present? Adult caries not present?
6-12 months 12-24 months 6-18 months 24-36 months
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CBCT software takes data and undergoes primary or 3D reconstruction once base images have been acquires. Goes through what process - multi-planar reformation, 3D reconstruction, or primary reconstruction?
Multi-planar reformation???
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When we're talking about Cone Beam CT images vs other (medical) CT images isotropic, mesotropic, magnification principles???
Isotropic means voxel same on each side
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T/F | Sometimes better resolution film is inferior to high res digital b/c of noise
True *digital can be better diagnostically
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CCD and CMOS are ____ detectors *can be wired or wireless
solid state *these have the scintillator coating that fluoresces
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CCD and CMOS are ____ detectors *can be wired or wireless
solid state *these have the scintillator coating that fluoresces
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PSP makes a latent image that is scanned with what?
Laser
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T/F | We see better in dim light so if you shift toward darker spectrum we see images better
True
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_____ encoding takes advantage of the non-linear manner in which we perceive light and color.
Gamma *we are more sensitive to relative differences of darker tones
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Relative importance of resolution, contrast and density to detecting dentoalveolar disease.
Resolution - not really important Contrast and Density - much larger role
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What type of receptor opposite the vertical collimator of a Pano machine continuously reads exposure?
CCD - charge-coupled device
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Appears higher up than real image, more blurred, larger vertical component.
Ghost images
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Three types of images produced in Pano:
Real Double ghost
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T/F | The oral airspace artifact washes out the apical surfaces of the maxillary teeth
True
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What creates the most artifacts?
Motion
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What is standard FOV for maxillofacial imaging?
6" close up
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Effects where the risk is proportional to the dose: Effects where the severity is proportional to the dose:
Stochastic Deterministic
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CBCT is equal to ___ days of background radiation FMX F-speed, rectangular collimation: FMX D-speed, round collimation:
10 4.3 47
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FMX D speed round collimation to PSP rectangular collimation decreases radiation ___% CBCT is around ___ times less radiation than D speed FMX
90 5
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MDCT (medical) is ___ times CBCT dose
30
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___% of calcium needs to be resorbed before seeing anything on a radiograph
10%
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T/F Dynamic Periapical allows scrolling through different views *all kinds of indications, type of CBCT
True
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CBCT stands for:
Cone Beam Computed Tomography
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In CBCT software can reorient the data, optimize, view and format
True
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All sides of Voxels are equal, meaning they are...
Isotropic
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What CBCT software analysis is best to examine alveolar bone?
MPR - multiplanar reformation *due to isotropic nature of voxels
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An image slab in MPR (multiplanar reformation) is called... Can slab be widened?
Ray Sum Yes - to the point of full thickness
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T/F | A selective display of voxels in the data set will result in a Volume Rendering
True
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Max Intensity Projections (MIP) evaluates each voxel at its highest value as a type of ____ rendering
Direct Volume
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Operator of a CBCT must provide a ______ of the entire image data set
written interpretive report
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Jawline fracture sometimes won't show up on what?
Pano *CBCT will catch
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3 orthogonal planes (high res FOV CBCT scan):
Axial (horizontal) Coronal (fronal) Saggital
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Pixel assigned a number representing specific tissue density called a:
Hounsfield Unit (HU)
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There is higher tissue contrast in MDCT b/c more radiation and scatter of CBCT
True
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IV Contrast Imaging is based on ____
iodine
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3 artifacts of CBCT:
Partial volume (differing densities will blur image) Beam hardening (the more tissue goes through) Metal streaking (metal absorbs x-ray completely)
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Only place we use MRI in dentistry:
TMJ imaging
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Nuclear medicine uses ___ rays
Gamma
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Anterior mandible radiopaque artifact:
Lead apron
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Images with Parralax aren't ideal for implants
True
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Vertical components of a ghost image are always larger and more blurred
True

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