CAMRT COMPLETE EXAMINATION TEST
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
●● 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)
●● 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
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
●● 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)
●● 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
