Test 2: Xray

Question 1

what is a radiograph

Answer 1

photons emitted, pass through the patient, get attenuated and then hit the detector plate
2D image of a 3D structure

Question 2

5 opacities of XRays

Answer 2

Question 3

what will be the most white on an xray

Answer 3

metal

Question 4

as physical density increases what happens to the photons?

Answer 4

more photons gets absorbed, less photons make it to xray plate → white

increase in radiopacity

Question 5

opposite of radiopacity

Answer 5

radiolucency

Question 6

Xrays are named based on ___

Answer 6

which side of the patient is down

Question 7

Answer 7

this is right lateral

(right side is on table)

photons go from left to right side

Question 8

Answer 8

V→D

Question 9

____ structures of the same opacity touch and their margins are lost

Answer 9

silhouetting

Question 10

____ when parts of the patient in different planes are superimposed, the overlapping region of the superimposed objects summate and that region has an increased opacity

Answer 10

summation

Question 11

example of what

Answer 11

silhouetting, margins are blurred between two things with similar opacities

Question 12

space overlapped demos what?

Answer 12

summation

two things overlap and give greater opacity (more white)

Question 13

Answer 13

liver

Question 14

Answer 14

spleen

Question 15

Answer 15

left kidney

Question 16

which kidney is more caudal

Answer 16

left kidney

Question 17

Answer 17

urinary bladder

Question 18

the urinary bladder is ventral or dorsal to the rectum?

Answer 18

ventral

Question 19

Answer 19

stomach, cranial abdomen

Question 20

Answer 20

small intestines

Question 21

Answer 21

colon

Question 22

Answer 22

cecum (ilium to ascending colon)

Question 23

find liver

Answer 23

Question 24

find spleen

Answer 24

Question 25

find Left kidney

Answer 25

Question 26

find bladder

Answer 26

Question 27

find stomach

Answer 27

fundus has gas inside

Question 28

find colon

Answer 28

Question 29

find cecum

Answer 29

Question 30

lung lobes on xray

Answer 30

Question 31

trachea

Answer 31

Question 32

find heart

Answer 32

Question 33

trachea end at the ___

Answer 33

carina

Question 34

aorta

Answer 34

Question 35

caudal vena cava

Answer 35

Question 36

caudal vena cave comes through what part of the diaphragm?

Answer 36

right crus of the diaphragm

The caval foramen is located at the junction of the tendinous and muscular parts of the right side of the diaphragm. The caudal vena cava passes through it.

Question 37

diaphragm

Answer 37

more cranial cura of diaphragm will be the side that is laying down

on R lateral, more cranial crua will be the R cura

Question 38

left cranial lung lobes

Answer 38

Question 39

left caudal lung lobes

Answer 39

Question 40

right cranial lung lobe

Answer 40

Question 41

right caudal lung lobe

Answer 41

Question 42

accessory lobe of lung

Answer 42

on right lung

Question 43

part of lung

Answer 43

Question 44

trachea

Answer 44

Question 45

aorta

Answer 45

Question 46

caudal vena cava

Answer 46

Question 47

cranial mediastinum

Answer 47

Question 48

lungs

Answer 48

Question 49

crus of diaphragm

Answer 49

Question 50

top of diaphragm

Answer 50

cupula

Question 51

diaphragm

Answer 51

Question 52

crus on xray

Answer 52