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What part of the x-ray machine PRODUCES x-ray?

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The tube comprised of a glass envelope, exit window, cathode (- small and large filaments with focusing cup) and anode (+ target plate slanted 12o)

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What is the housing of the tube made of?

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Lead-lined steel or aluminum and contains oil

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When to use small vs large filaments?

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Small: smaller targets, longer exposure time, more penumbra
Large: larger objects, shorter exposure time, less penumbra

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Characteristic radiation aka Hard x-rays:

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10-15% of beam and doesn’t contribute to formation of image

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Bremsstrahlung radiation aka Braking radiation AKA soft x-rays:

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85-90% of x-ray beam and creates image

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Deflected x-rays create?

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Filmfog

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Compton effect:

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interacts with matter causing ionizing radiation which may damage tissues with lots of H+ (fat)

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How does a grid help with the Compton effect?

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Reduces scatter radiation that reaches the film

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Photoelectric effect:

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X-rays completely absorbed by patient and has no effect on film

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Radiographic noise:

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Unwanted radiographic densities that obstruct viewing of structural details on film

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Artifact:

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Caused by objects in or on patient like necklaces, rubber bands, implanted medical devices or caused by damage to film emulsion

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Three types of mottle:

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Quantum: variation in density of uniformly exposed film from random spatial distribution of x-ray quanta absorbed in screen
Structure
Film graininess

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Ways to reduce scatter radiation:

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Reduce beam size, increasing kVp, decreasing field size (collimation, grid, air-gap),

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Thermionic emissions:

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Boiling off of electrons from heated filament, current is mA increasing current current increase temperature increases number of electrons generated

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Rectifier:

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Converts AC to DC voltage measured in kVp and affects speed of electrons

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Port filters:

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made of aluminum and decrease amount of radiation patient is exposed to and decrease the amount of tissue damage

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Collimator:

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Device made of two layers of metal laid at right angles narrows field size to reduce pt exposure dose, scatter and improves quality of film

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Lead shields

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Prevent x-rays from passing through organs like gonads, thyroid, etc

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Increasing the mA brings what filament into play? Decreasing?

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Large filament

Small filament - sharper image

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Good and best grid ratios?

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12: 1
6: 1

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Put in order: grid, film, pt

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Pt, grid, film

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Intensifying screen:

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Made of small phosphorus crystals, two of them on either side of film, crystals fluoresce and expose film, large crystals increase light and small ones increase detail

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Silver halide crystals:

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embedded in emulsion layer of gelatin in film plastic which is sensitive to light emitted by screens and x-rays

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Six processing steps of film:

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  1. Pre-wet - allow chemicals to penetrate emulsion uniformly
  2. Develop: in solution for 5 seconds so silver halide crystals reduce to black metallic silver raising temperature 1o will decrease developing time by 20%
  3. Stop bath: water + acetic acid for 30s to stop action of developer
  4. Fix: solution for 10 minutes, stops development, hardens film, sodium thiosulfite and reclaim silver from old films
  5. Wash: removes developer and fixer, prevent brown film
  6. Dry
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Density:
Overall blackness of film | Directly proportional to kVp and mA (1o)
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Contrast:
Differences in shades of gray in film and indirectly related to kVp (low contrast high kVP, high contrat, low kVp)
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Detail:
How clear structures are visualized
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How would you increase detail?
Increae FFD, decrease OFD or kVp
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FFD of 40" vs 72"
40: more radiation, penumbra, magnification and less detail 72: less radiation, penumbra, magnification, and more detail
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Inverse square law:
radiation intensity is inversely related to square of FFD
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50/15 rule:
50% decrease in mAs is equivalent to a 15% increase in kVp
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16:20% rule:
Decrease kVp by 16% you have to double mAs or it will halve the film density If you increase kVp 20% you have to decrease mAs by half or you will double the film density
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Increasing kVp will:
increase film exposure, scatter radiation, fog and decrease contrast
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Increasing mAs will:
increase film exposure and darken film
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Anode heel effect:
Cathode should be closer to larger or fatter part of the object
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Bergonie-Tribondeau law:
Radiosensitivity of tissue is directly proportional to the rate at which the tissue multiples
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What are radiosensitive tissues?
Gonads, bone marrow, lymphoid tissue, colon, lungs
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What are radioresistant tissue?
Brain, spinal cord, thyroid, muscle
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HVL:
High value laser, thickness of a material needed to attenuate intensity of the x-ray by 50%
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Rem:
Roentgen equivalent in man; unit of ionizing radiation
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Sievert:
Unit of ionizing radiation absorbed dose equivalent to 100 Rems
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Millisievert:
1000th of a Sievert [10^-3 SV]
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RAD:
Radiation absorbed dose
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RBE:
Relative biological effectiveness
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What to do if a film is underexposed? Overexposed?
Increase mAs | Decrease mAs
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What films are taken at 72"?
Cervicals: lateral, obliques, flexion, extension Chest: P-A, lateral Lateral sternum Full spine AP and later
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What film are PA?
Skull, mandible, chest, wrist, tunnel, patella
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Which films are inhale and hold?
PA, lateral chest (not if pneumothorax) AP full spine AP and lateral thoracic spine
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When should grids be used?
Body parts >12cm to reduce scatter radiation with at least 70 kVp
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Which films have caudal tube tilts?
Cervical anterior oblique Lateral lumbar AP coccyx Y-scapular
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Holmblad is also known as?
Intercondylar and Tunnel
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The sunrise view of the knee is also known as?
Tangenital
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The abduction view of the shoulder is also known as?
Baby arm
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The caldwell view is for what anatomy?
Frontal sinus
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The towne view is for what anatomy?
Foramen magnum
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The water view is for what anatomy?
Maxillary sinus
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The lateral skull view is for what anatomy?
Sella turcica
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The apical lordotic view is for what anatomy?
Pancoast tumor
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The Sunrise view is for what anatomy?
Apical view of the patella and intercondylar groove
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Cervical anterior oblique tube tilt, central ray focus?
150 caudal | C4; RAO shows R intervertebral foramina
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Cervical posterior oblique tube tilt, central ray focus?
15o cephalad | C4; RPO shows L intervertebral foramina
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AP Lower cervical tube tilt, central ray focus?
15o cephalad | C4
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Lateral lumbosacral tube tilt?
5o caudal
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AP coccyx tube tilt, central ray focus?
10o caudal | 1" superior to symphysis pubis
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PA lumbosacral spot tube tilt, central ray focus?
30o cephalad | L5 spinous process
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AP sacrum tube tilt, central ray focus?
15o cephalad | 1/2 btw ASIS and symphysis pubis
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AP Foot and medial oblique tube tilt, central ray focus?
10o cephalad | Base of 3rd metatarsal
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Axial patella tube tilt?
10-20o cephalad
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Lateral and AP knee? tube tilt, central ray focus?
5o cephalad | Center of joint and inferior pole of patella
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APOM tube tilt, central ray focus?
5o cephalad | Through the uvula of the soft palate
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CT (Computerized Tomography)
Conventional X-radiation measured in Hounsfield unit produces reconstructed axial images with a thin fan-shaped x-ray beam (rotate around pt in 180o arc in serial or spiral fashion) producing slices 1-10mm thick, image tends to be grainy
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Pros to CT:
Contrast resolution 95X better than conventional radiography, can make 3D images of any part of the body, good for intraspinal and intracranial masses, bleeding, spinal canal stenosis, abdominal masses, bony structures, lung pathology, disc
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Cons to CT:
Excludes very large patients, pregnant people, induce sense of claustraphobia, increased exposure to ionizing radiation
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MRI:
Large magnetic field (30,000X >than Earth's magnetic field) to generate radio frequency waves measured in Tesla units and measures how much H+ reacts to magnetic and radio waves T1 for fatty tissues as white - gadolinium contrast T2 for water as white
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Pros to MRI:
No radiation, good for spinal cord and brain pathology, disc lesions, solid organ pathology, mets, demyelinating CNS disorders, musculotendinous disorders
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Cons to MRI:
claustraphobia, no large patients, contraindicated for pacemakers and defibrillators, intracranial aneurysm, surgical clips, cochlear implants, neurostimulators
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Radionuclide Bone Imaging (Bone scan, Bone Scintigraphy):
Use radioactive pharmaceuticals (technetium 99, indium 111 labeled WBCs) injected into patient and gamma camera to create the images, radioactive material is taken up by osteoblastic tissue (SI, AC, SC joints, kidney, tips of scap, frontal parasagittal regions of the skull, costochondral joints, occult fx, AVN,PE, blastic mets, osteomyelitis)
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Diagnostic Ultrasound:
High frequency sound waves to investigate suspected vascular diseases (AAA, carotid/vertebral A disease, pregnancy, ovarian disease, cholelisthiasis)
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fMRI
Measuring brain activity by detecting changes inblood oxygenation (hemoglobin contains iron can be magnetized) and more active areas of the brain require more oxygen resulting in change in density of the magnetic signal For pt's suffering from depression, schizophrenia, fibromyalgia
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PET
Measure regional cerebral BF using radioactively labeled tracer glucose molecules since most tumors preferentially use glycolytic pathway for energy there's a greater concentration of radioactive glucose in malignant tissues (Warburg effect)
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SPECT
Injection of radionuclide into blood stream and pictures are taken w/gamma camera
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When do you use a barium swallow?
Visualize
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ALARA:
Radiation exposure should be kept AS LOW AS REASONABLY ACHIEVABLE
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10 day rule:
Limit exposure to radiation to 10 day period following onset of menses in a female
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American College of Radiology Practice Guidelines for the performance of Spine Radiography in Children and Adults (2007):
Evaluation of: pain or limitation of motion, spinal trauma (symptomatic or in at risk patients), previous surgery, suspected malignancy, congenital anomalies, previously detected spinal abnormality, alignment abnormalities including scoliosis and kyphosis, shoulder or arm pain from suspected cervical radiculopathy, occipital headache, pain radiating around the chest wall, pain radiating into buttock/hip/groin, compression fracture
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Canadian C-spine rules:
Radiographs if after trauma High risk factors such as older than age 65, work with dangerous mechanisms or paresthesia in extremities Presence of midline cervical spine tenderness or delayed onset neck pain Unable to actively rotate the neck beyond 45o
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NEXUS rules:
No x-ray needed if present after hx of injury to neck: No posterior cervical spine tenderness, evidence of intoxication, focal neurological damage, painful distracting injury Normal level of alertness
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Ottawa knee rules:
X-rays recommended if hx of trauma to knee and: >55 years, isolated tenderness of patella, tenderness at head of fibula, inability to flex to 90o inability to take more than 4 steps immediately and in office
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Ottawa ankle rules:
>55 years, inability to take more than 4 steps immediately and in office, local tenderness at talus, navicular, cuboid, 5th met or posterior/crest of either malleolus

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