Mammography Anatomy History Procedures General Facts Pathology
100
Mammary Gland
What is another term for the female breast?
100
Mammography
What is the last modality to use digital technology?
100
Suspended or Stop Breathing
What is the respiration phase for all mammography projections?
100
Associate's degree or Advanced Certificate in Radiologic Technology
What is the first step into becoming a mammography technologist?
100
Osteoporosis
What is the disease characterized by low bone mass and structural deterioration of bone tissue called?
200
15-20
What is the number of lobes the breast consist of?
200
1920
Osteoporosis was an undetected and over looked disease until what year?
200
Craniocaudal (CC) and Mediolateral (MLO)
What are the 2 routine projections done in mammography?
200
Annually
How often should women receive a mammogram?
200
Upper Outer Quadrant
What is the area or quadrant that most breast cancers are detected at?
300
Cooper's Ligaments
What is the ligaments that the breast are supported by called?
300
Single photon absorptiometry and dual photon absorptiometry
What were the first scanners dedicated to bone densitometry known as?
300
Spot Compression and Magnification Technique
What is the image enhancement methods used in mammography to enhance the image of the area under investigation?
300
Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA)
What technique is the most common for performing bone densitometry?
300
Primary and Secondary
What are the two types of osteoporosis?
400
4
What is the number of density ranges a breast can classified as?
400
DXA of the hip and spine
What are the two most widely accepted methods for measuring bone densitometry?
400
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?
400
Bone Mineral Density
What does BMD stand for?
400
Vertebral Fractures
What fractures are the most common in osteoporotic patients?
500
Glandular and Connective
What is the soft tissue-density structure tissue types of the breast?
500
Portable Options
Since the 1990s there has been renewed attention for measuring the peripheral skeleton with what?
500
Nondominant
For a DXA scan of the forearm which arm should be used?
500
Background Radiation
The effective dose in Bone Densitometry is similar to that of what?
500
1.5 Million
1.5 Million Approximately how many osteoporotic fractures occur each year?






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