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| Patient lying on the back, face up. |
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| Patient lying on the stomach, face down. |
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| Patient lying down on side, x-ray beam positioned horizontally. |
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| Patient lying down, either prone or supine. |
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| Patient bending a specific part of the body. |
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| Patient lengthens or straightens a flexed limb. |
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| posterior-anterior (PA view) |
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| Most common chest x-ray view. The x-ray goes from a source placed posteriorly to a detector placed anteriorly. |
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| anteroposterior view (AP) |
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| The x-ray goes from a source placed anteriorly to a detector placed posteriorly. |
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| The x-ray goes from a source located to right of patient to a detector located to the left of the patient. |
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| The x-rays will travel in a slanted direction at an angle stemming from the perpendicular plane. Regions normally hidden in PA or AP view will appear in oblique views. |
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| Vertical plane divides the body into anterior and posterior. The PA view of a chest x-ray uses the frontal plane. |
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| Unequal right and left sides. |
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| Right and left halves. Lateral chest x-ray (side-to-side) uses the sagittal plane. |
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| Upper (superior) and lower (inferior) portions. CT scan uses the transverse plane. |
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| Cuts along the long (longitudinal) axis of the body. |
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| This is a transverse plane named so because it should cross over the pylorus of the stomach. |
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| midcoronal (midaxillary) plane |
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| A longitudinal plane which cuts through the head and body along the coronal suture of head and extended cut down through the body. |
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| obscure, as in radiopaque |
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| to shine, as in translucent |
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| movement, as in cineradiogram |
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| repeated sound, as in echocardiogram |
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| process of recording, as in ultrasonography |
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| beyond, as in ultrasonogram |
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| x-ray, as in roentgenology |
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| luminous, as in fluoroscopic |
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| spark, as in scintigraphy (note the spelling is with an "i") |
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| anteroposterior/posteroanterior |
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| computerized axial tomography scan |
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| digital image communication in medicine (meaning transmission between imaging devices) |
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| endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography |
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| gastrointestinal (usually upper GI—the area examined) |
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| hydroxyiminodiacetic acid |
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| kidneys, ureters, bladder |
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| magnetic resonance imaging |
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| multiple gated acquisition |
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| picture archival and communications system |
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| positron emission tomography |
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| upper gastrointestinal (series) |
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