Mammography Anatomy | History | Procedures | General Facts | Pathology |
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Mammary Gland
What is another term for the female breast?
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Mammography
What is the last modality to use digital technology?
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Suspended or Stop Breathing
What is the respiration phase for all mammography projections?
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Associate's degree or Advanced Certificate in Radiologic Technology
What is the first step into becoming a mammography technologist?
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Osteoporosis
What is the disease characterized by low bone mass and structural deterioration of bone tissue called?
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15-20
What is the number of lobes the breast consist of?
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1920
Osteoporosis was an undetected and over looked disease until what year?
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Craniocaudal (CC) and Mediolateral (MLO)
What are the 2 routine projections done in mammography?
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Annually
How often should women receive a mammogram?
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Upper Outer Quadrant
What is the area or quadrant that most breast cancers are detected at?
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Cooper's Ligaments
What is the ligaments that the breast are supported by called?
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Single photon absorptiometry and dual photon absorptiometry
What were the first scanners dedicated to bone densitometry known as?
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Spot Compression and Magnification Technique
What is the image enhancement methods used in mammography to enhance the image of the area under investigation?
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Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA)
What technique is the most common for performing bone densitometry?
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Primary and Secondary
What are the two types of osteoporosis?
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4
What is the number of density ranges a breast can classified as?
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DXA of the hip and spine
What are the two most widely accepted methods for measuring bone densitometry?
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15 to 25 degrees internally
For a proximal femur (hip) DXA scan if a patient is supine how much should the entire leg be rotated and in what direction?
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Bone Mineral Density
What does BMD stand for?
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Vertebral Fractures
What fractures are the most common in osteoporotic patients?
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Glandular and Connective
What is the soft tissue-density structure tissue types of the breast?
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Portable Options
Since the 1990s there has been renewed attention for measuring the peripheral skeleton with what?
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Nondominant
For a DXA scan of the forearm which arm should be used?
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Background Radiation
The effective dose in Bone Densitometry is similar to that of what?
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1.5 Million
1.5 Million Approximately how many osteoporotic fractures occur each year?
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