Brain/pituitary/nerves

Question 1

Name the lobes of the brains

Answer 1

Frontal
Temporal
Parietal
Occipital
Insula

Question 2

What is gray matter versus white matter

Answer 2

Gray matter have neuron cells

White matter are myelinated axon’s. They are insulated nerves

Question 3

What is brain matter the shallow grooves and the deeper grooves

Answer 3

Matter is Gyrus
Shallow is Sylvia
Deeper is fissures

Question 4

What makes up the Diencephalon

Answer 4

Thalamus
Epithalamus pineal gland
hypothalamus optic chiasym

Question 5

Where is broccas and wenickes area

Answer 5

Brocca is frontal

Wernickes is occipital

Question 6

What is the posterior and anterior names for corpus collusom

Answer 6

Rostrum anterior to genu to body to splenium

Question 7

What is the Lentiform nucleus composed of?

Answer 7

Putamen

Globus pallidus

Question 8

Where is the head of the caudate nucleus

Answer 8

Below anterior horn and lateral ventricular

Question 9

What is the largest and densest bundle of white matter fibers within the cerebrum

Answer 9

Corpus Colossom

Question 10

A seizure patient comes in what is your primary area of interest

Answer 10

Hippo campus

Question 11

What are the three layers of meninges

Answer 11

Dura matter
Arachnoid mater
Pia mater

Question 12

What secretes CSF

Answer 12

Choroid plexus

Question 13

What is the posterior fossa

Answer 13

The cerebellum and brain stem

Question 14

Where is the optic chiasm and what view can you see it best?

Answer 14

Superior and anterior to dorsum salla

Sagittal

Question 15

What is the only organ that bridges between the two hemispheres in the brain

Answer 15

Corpus callosum

Question 16

What kind of study would you do for an EAM

Answer 16

IAC

Question 17

What is the optimal view for pituitary

Answer 17

Coronal

Use a sagittal to set it up

Use an axial to set up a sagittal

Question 18

The Arnold Chiari malformation is in what region

Answer 18

Center occipital cervical region

Question 19

When doing an IAC what nerves are of interest

Answer 19

Seventh and eighth

Question 20

Sigmoid sinus drains into what

Answer 20

Internal jugular vein

Question 21

What appearance would you get from a T2w image of a degenerative disc disease

Answer 21

Dark appearance

Question 22

Chief complaint of a tethered cord where do you image

Answer 22

Lumbar

Question 23

What structures enhance post IV administration

Answer 23

Nasal tuberates

Question 24

What are nerve cell bodies and unmyelinated sheaths

Answer 24

Gray matter

Question 25

What are two other names for pituitary gland

Answer 25

Hypophysis Cerebri | Master gland

Question 26

What is the pituitary gland surrounded by

Answer 26

Sella turcica

Question 27

What is the stock on the pituitary gland

Answer 27

Infundibulum

Question 28

If someone complains of a hormonal inbalance or galactorrhea what type of exam would you do

Answer 28

Pituitary gland

Question 29

What are the primary cranial nerves we image

Answer 29

2 5 7 8

Question 30

What imaging views do we use for cranial nerves

Answer 30

Coronal and axial only

Question 31

Where does the optic nerve exit from and where do they cross at

Answer 31

The exit from the occipital lobe and they cross over the pituitary gland known as the optic chiasm

Question 32

Where are there lachrymal glands

Answer 32

On the lateral/side of the globe

Question 33

Where does the trigeminal nerve exit and what area does it enter

Answer 33

Exits the pons | Enters in the cavernous sinus in an area called Meckel's cave

Question 34

What parameter range are you looking for when imaging cranial number five

Answer 34

Fourth ventricle to anterior temporal lobe on the coronal

Question 35

Patient complains of facial pain and numbness what is your focal point

Answer 35

Trigeminal nerve number five

Question 36

What is the name for the seventh and eighth cranial nerve

Answer 36

Facial and vestibulocochlear nerve

Question 37

The seventh and eighth nerve cross where

Answer 37

IAC

Question 38

Where does the seventh and eighth cranial nerve exit

Answer 38

Exits the pontomedullary junction

Question 39

The patient complains of tinnitus, bells palsy, vertigo, or hearing loss what are we targeting

Answer 39

Seventh and eighth cranial nerve

Question 40

Where is the sylvian fissure

Answer 40

It separates the frontal and temporal lobe best seen on the axial view

Question 41

The lateral ventricles open down to the third ventricle through what

Answer 41

Foramon of Monro

Question 42

The third ventricle communicates with the fourth ventricle through what. Note there are two names

Answer 42

Cerebral aqueduct | Aqueduct of Sylvus

Question 43

What is used as a landmark to determine if the midline brain has shifted due to trauma

Answer 43

Septum Pellucidum

Question 44

What is Arnold Chiara malformation

Answer 44

When the cerebellum tonsils dip below the foramen magnum or the central vermis

Question 45

What is the ACPC line and what is it used for

Answer 45

Anterior and posterior commissure. Runs parallel to the corpus callosum Used for axial images when imaging the posterior fossa

Question 46

What is the fluid area anterior to the pons

Answer 46

Prepontine cistern

Question 47

What is a good parotid gland landmark

Answer 47

Ramus of the mandible

Question 48

What is nickname for midbrain on coronal image?

Answer 48

Mickey Mouse