Chest:

1. What are the 3 divisions of the chest?

2. What is the pharynx? What are the 3 subdivisons?
3. What is the larynx and where is it located?
4. What is the Trachea? Where is it located?
5. What is different about the Rt./ Lt. bronchi? What is aspiration?
6. How many portions do the left and right Lungs have?
7. What is the Apex? What are the apices?
8. What is the Parietal pleura? What is the pleural cavity?
9. What is Parenchyma?
10.
What are the steps of Respiration?
11.
Landmarks for positioning?
12.
What are the Clinical indications for a chest x-ray?
13.
What are the Pathologies for a chest x-ray?
14.
What is dyspnea?
15.
What does COPD stand for?
16.
What is atelectasis?
17.
What is pnemothorax?
18.
What is bronchiectasis?
19.
What is the difference between benine and malignant?
20.
What kind of technique do you use? What kind of contrast
is it? What is the kVp range?
21.
What is hypersthenic vs hypostenic and asthenic?
22.
How do you reduce heart magnification?
23.
What is an Apical axial?
24.
What is an Apical lordotic?
25.
What is a Decubitus and why do you do it? How must the
CR be?
26.
What is an Oblique and why would you do it?
27.
What does AEC do?
Abdomen:
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What are Clinical indications for the abdomen?

What is pnemoperitoneum?
What is cholelithiasis?
What is urolithiasis?
What is ascites?
What does volvulus mean?
What is intuessusception?
What are the 9 regions of the abdomen?
What are the Clinical landmarks?
What does Supine mean? Why is it performed?
What are the Positioning criteria for supine?
Why do you perform an Erect/upright position?
What is the Positioning criteria for an erect PA?

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Why do you do a x-ray PA and not AP? When do you do an
AP?
42.
What kind of Lateral decubitis is preferred and why?
43.
Where do you put the central ray for a decubitis? What
marker do you put?
44.
Intestinal obstruction? What can common mechanical
causes include?
Hand:

45.
What are the types of Fracture?
46.
What is the most common fractured site in the hand?
47.
How many phalanges are there? How many IP? How many
metacarpals? How many MCP joints?
48.
What side is the thumb always on?
49.
What are the bones of the hand? What is the acronim for
them?
50.
What is a diarthrodial joint?
51.
How do you position a PA Hand? What kind of receptor
plate do you use? What is the kVp? Where is the CR?
52.
What anatomy is demonstrated on a PA hand?
53.
What is the position for a PA Oblique? Why do you increase
kVp and by how much?
54.
What do you want to see in a PA oblique hand?
55.
What is the positioning for a Fan lateral hand? Where is the
CR? What do you increase the kVp by? Why would you do a fan
lateral?
56.
What is a Lateral with flexion relaxed? Why would you do
this? Where is the CR? What do you do to the kVp?
57.
Why do you perform a Full extension lateral? Where is the
CR?
58.
What is an AP oblique also called?
59.
Why do you do an AP oblique? Where is the CR?
60.
What do you do for a Traumatic hand protocol?

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In an AP thumb where is the thumb placed? What is the
kVp?
62.
PA Oblique thumb placement? Where is the CR?
63.
What do you do for a Lateral thumb?
64.
What is a Bennetts FX? Where is it?
65.
When can an Avulsion fracture happen? What is it?
66.
What is a Rolando FX?
67.
Why would you do a Roberts projection? How would you do
it?
68.
What position would you do if you wanted to see digits 2-5?
69.
Where is a Boxers FX? In what metacarpal is it the most
common FX?
70.
What do you do for a plaster cast? What if the cast is still
wet?
71.
What do you do for a waterproof cast?
72.
What is the difference between a closed reduction?
Wrist:
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What do you do for a PA wrist?

Why do you have the patient make a fist?
What is the PA critique? What do you want to see?
How do you do a PA Oblique wrist? What is the kVp?
How do you do an AP Oblique wrist? What does this projection
show free of superimposition?
6. How do you do a Lateral wrist? What does this best demonstrate?
Where do you put the marker?
7. What is the difference between a Colles vs Smiths FX? What are
they both associated with?
8. How would you see if there is a fracture?
9. What is the most commonly fractured carpal? Why is it important
to visualize early?
10.
What Projections do you do for a scaphoid injury?
11.
What are the common sites of scaphoid FX?
12.
Why do you do Ulnar vs radial deviation?
13.
What is the Stetchers projection?
14.
What is a True Stetchers? Where is the CR? What does this
do?
15.
What is a Modified stetchers? what do you angle? What
does this show?
16.
What does ulnar deviation do?
17.
What does the angle do to the scaphoid?
18.
What does the multi-angle series for scaphoid?
19.
What is the Carpal canal/tangential/gaynor-hart? Why do
you do it?
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What is an EMG?

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What does the carpal canal show?

How do you do a Carpal canal/tangential?
Why do you perform a AP wrist? What does it demonstrate?
What is a Terry Thomas?
What does show Lunate dislocation?
What is Kienbocks disease?
Lateral wrist in flexion
What is a carpal boss? Where does it occur?

Elbow and forearm

29.
What side is the ulna on? What does the trochela notch
allow for? Anatomy of the elbow?
30.
What is the Arthrology of the elbow?
31.
Fractures associated with the forearm (Pediatric)
32.
Fractures associated with the forearm (adult)
33.
How do you do an AP forearm? What do you do to the
hand?
34.
How do you do a Lateral Forearm? Where is the CR?
35.
What makes a perfect lateral?
Elbow
36.
What is the percent of injuries to the adult elbow involve
the radial head and neck (fall on outstretched arm with forearm
pronated)
37.
What is the kVp for the elbow?
38.
What are the different types of fractures that can happen
to the radial head?
39.
What does type 3 and 4 have in common?
40.
AP Elbow? Where is the CR?
41.
How can you tell it is an AP?
42.
Medial (internal) oblique?
43.
What does the internal oblique best demonstrate?
44.
What is the difference between AP vs Lateral oblique?
45.
Lateral (external) oblique
46.
What does the lateral external oblique best demonstrate?
47.
Lateral elbow
48.
What does the lateral elbow best demonstrate?
49.
When should you see fat pads? What are the posterior,
anterior, and supernator fat pads?
50.
What does a supernator fat pad mean in terms of the radial
head?