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This extensive CAMRT Exam Questions 2026/2027 study document spans 172 pages and provides hundreds of exam-style questions with answers and illustrations for comprehensive medical radiation technology review. The material covers radiographic positioning, anatomy, image production, X-ray physics, CT, fluoroscopy, mammography, bone mineral densitometry, angiography and interventional procedures, radiation protection, contrast media, patient care, pathology, pharmacology, quality control, and professional practice. Early questions address C-spine flexion and extension imaging, ERCP, rheumatoid arthritis imaging, Shenton’s line, scoliosis, chest and abdominal techniques, focal-spot testing, the line-focus principle, lumbar-spine positioning, vascular catheters, sensitometry, fractures, sterile technique, and contrast examinations. A major portion focuses on radiographic positioning and anatomy, giving students practical review of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine, skull, pelvis, sacrum, coccyx, SI joints, shoulder, scapula, wrist, hand, hip, knee, ankle, ribs and chest. Positioning concepts include the Scottie-dog anatomy of lumbar obliques, AP axial sacrum and coccyx projections, scoliosis bending views, odontoid positioning, scapular-Y evaluation, AC joints, patellar projections, decubitus imaging for pleural effusion, chest projections for pneumothorax, and trauma positioning. The document also reviews common fractures and pathologies such as Bennett, Pott, Boxer and Salter-Harris fractures, Osgood-Schlatter disease, osteoporosis, osteomyelitis, atelectasis, pneumothorax, aneurysm and aortic dissection. X-ray physics, image production and quality control are extensively represented. 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CAMRT Exam Questions
2026/2027 Exam All Answers
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C-spine flexion / extension views assess what? - ANSWER

✔✔Anterior and posterior movement or lack of movement due to an

injury


What does ERCP stand for? - ANSWER ✔✔Endoscopic retrograde

cholangiopancreatography


What is an ERCP used for? - ANSWER ✔✔To investigate biliary tree,

CBD, gallbladder and pancreas

,Ball catchers view is good to assess what? - ANSWER ✔✔Early

stages of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Low blood pressure and dizziness due to standing up too quickly -

ANSWER ✔✔Orthostatic hypertension


What is Shenton's Line? - ANSWER ✔✔An imaginary curved line

drawn along the inferior border of the superior pubic ramus and along

the inferomedial border of the neck of femur


What is Shenton's Line used for? - ANSWER ✔✔To evaluate hip

pathology

What body part perpendicular to the CR when doing an intercondylar

fossa? - ANSWER ✔✔Long axis of the lower leg (Tib / Fib)


What is the purpose of lateral bending for scoliosis? - ANSWER

✔✔To determine structural change in early diagnosis


Optimal kVp for a chest? - ANSWER ✔✔100 - 130 kVp


How should you adjust CR for a portable Chest X-Ray on a kyphotic

patient? - ANSWER ✔✔Angle less slightly or leave the tube

perpendicular so clavicles will be 1" below apices of lung

,What is the maximum focal spot size for scaphoid? - ANSWER

✔✔0.6 mm


What medication may be added to the contrast to prevent a reaction? -

ANSWER ✔✔A steroid or anti-histamine


What test tool is used to test focal spot? - ANSWER ✔✔Slit camera,

pinhole camera and star pattern


What does focal spot size effect? - ANSWER ✔✔Penumbra


What does penumbra effect? - ANSWER ✔✔Recorded detail


What is the line focus principle? - ANSWER ✔✔The lower the target

angle, the smaller the effective focal spot size. The higher the target

angle, the larger the focal spot size


What is the advantage of line focus principle? - ANSWER ✔✔It

provides the detail of a small focal spot while allowing a large amount of

heat dissipation

If the pedicles sit too far posterior on vertebral bodies for an oblique L

spine, what does this mean? - ANSWER ✔✔Too much obliquity




Remember: *PP - too much* (posterior pedicles)


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, What is a CVP line? - ANSWER ✔✔Used for measuring central

venous pressure as well as allowing nutrients and fluid to be instilled


Best location for a CVP (Central Venous Pressure) Line? - ANSWER

✔✔Brachiocephalic vein or Superior Vena Cava


Where does a Swan-Ganz catheter sit? - ANSWER ✔✔The right side

of the heart and the arteries leading to the lungs


What does a Swan-Ganz catheter measure? - ANSWER ✔✔The

heart's function and blood flow pressures in and around the heart


What are Plia circularis? - ANSWER ✔✔The numerous folds of the

mucous membrane of the small intestine


What are the instruments used for sensitometry? - ANSWER ✔✔-

Sensitometer (step wedge)

- Densitometer


How often is a sensitometry strip done? - ANSWER ✔✔Daily


What is demonstrated on a 15O degree occipitofrontal view of the

sinuses? - ANSWER ✔✔- Frontal sinuses


- Anterior ethmoidal air cells

- Sphenoid sinuses

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