CAMRT Exam Questions with Correct Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: C-spine flexion / extension views
Answer: Anterior and posterior movement or lack of
Question 2: assess what?
Answer: movement due to an injury
Question 3: What does ERCP stand for?
Answer: Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography
Question 4: What is an ERCP used for?
Answer: To investigate biliary tree, CBD, gallbladder and pancreas
Question 5: Ball catchers view is good to assess what?
Answer: Early stages of Rheumatoid Arthritis
Question 6: Low blood pressure and dizziness due to standing up too quickly
Answer: Orthostatic hypertension
Question 7: 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
Question 8: What is Shenton's Line used for?
Answer: To evaluate hip pathology
Question 9: What body part perpendicular to the CR when doing an intercondylar fossa?
Answer: Long axis of the lower leg (Tib / Fib)
Question 10: What is the purpose of lateral bending for scoliosis?
Answer: To determine structural change in early diagnosis
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, Question 11: Optimal kVp for a chest?
Answer: 100 - 130 kVp
Question 12: How should you adjust CR for a
Answer: Angle less slightly or leave the tube perpendicular so
Question 13: portable Chest X-Ray on a kyphotic patient?
Answer: clavicles will be 1" below apices of lung
Question 14: What is the maximum focal spot size for scaphoid?
Answer: 0.6 mm
Question 15: What medication may be added to the contrast to prevent a reaction?
Answer: A steroid or anti-histamine
Question 16: What test tool is used to test focal spot?
Answer: Slit camera, pinhole camera and star pattern
Question 17: What does focal spot size effect?
Answer: Penumbra
Question 18: What does penumbra effect?
Answer: Recorded detail
Question 19: 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
Question 20: What is the advantage of line focus
Answer: It provides the detail of a small focal spot while
Question 21: principle?
Answer: allowing a large amount of heat dissipation
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Question 1: C-spine flexion / extension views
Answer: Anterior and posterior movement or lack of
Question 2: assess what?
Answer: movement due to an injury
Question 3: What does ERCP stand for?
Answer: Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography
Question 4: What is an ERCP used for?
Answer: To investigate biliary tree, CBD, gallbladder and pancreas
Question 5: Ball catchers view is good to assess what?
Answer: Early stages of Rheumatoid Arthritis
Question 6: Low blood pressure and dizziness due to standing up too quickly
Answer: Orthostatic hypertension
Question 7: 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
Question 8: What is Shenton's Line used for?
Answer: To evaluate hip pathology
Question 9: What body part perpendicular to the CR when doing an intercondylar fossa?
Answer: Long axis of the lower leg (Tib / Fib)
Question 10: What is the purpose of lateral bending for scoliosis?
Answer: To determine structural change in early diagnosis
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, Question 11: Optimal kVp for a chest?
Answer: 100 - 130 kVp
Question 12: How should you adjust CR for a
Answer: Angle less slightly or leave the tube perpendicular so
Question 13: portable Chest X-Ray on a kyphotic patient?
Answer: clavicles will be 1" below apices of lung
Question 14: What is the maximum focal spot size for scaphoid?
Answer: 0.6 mm
Question 15: What medication may be added to the contrast to prevent a reaction?
Answer: A steroid or anti-histamine
Question 16: What test tool is used to test focal spot?
Answer: Slit camera, pinhole camera and star pattern
Question 17: What does focal spot size effect?
Answer: Penumbra
Question 18: What does penumbra effect?
Answer: Recorded detail
Question 19: 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
Question 20: What is the advantage of line focus
Answer: It provides the detail of a small focal spot while
Question 21: principle?
Answer: allowing a large amount of heat dissipation
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