Imaging Test

What does CT stand for?

• Criteria Test

• Critical Technology

• Computed Tomography

What does invasive mean

• You invade the body (cutting/ entering the body)

• You don't enter the body

• You examine the body

What does noninvasive mean?

• You don't invade the body (doesn't require breaking of the skin)

• You invade the body (enters the body/ breaks the skin)

How are barium and iodine introduced to the body when used as a contrast medium?

• Swallowed

• Administered by enema

• Injected into a blood vessel

• Poked into your eye

Can all people use these contrast mediums?

• Yes

• No, if you have an allergy to the dye or shellfish.

How does a CT Scan take pictures?

• With a magnet

• In slices

• All at once

• In circles

What things in particular are CT scans good at picking up?

• Bones

• Random Objects that you swallow

• Soft tissue

What is another name for Sonography?

• Sonygraph

• Ultrasound

• Ultasound

How does a ultrasound take pictures?

• In slices

• It produces pictures of inside the body using soundwaves

• With a magnet

• Uses small radioactive waves

What is Ultrasounds good for?

• It's good at examining brain and spinal cord injuries

• It’s used to help diagnose the causes of pain swelling and infections in the body's internal organs and to examine a baby in a pregnant lady.