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BongCruz
Sternum
Mar 3 2010, 2:55 PM EST | Post edited: Mar 3 2010, 2:55 PM EST
These images were awesome. i'm a radiography student and one of the hardest area of interest to position is the sternum. May I know what techniques utilized on the above radiographs. Thanks. 1  out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?    
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XrayTom
XrayTom
1. RE: Sternum
May 6 2010, 11:14 AM EDT | Post edited: May 6 2010, 11:14 AM EDT
I'll try to explain in enlish:

I used a tomography in an angle of 20° and a time of 1.2 seconds, 70kV.
The hight of the slice is depending on the distance between the sternum and the phosfor plate.
The patient lies down facing the table. Left arm besides him, right arm under his head.
The patient slightly turns his right hand side away from the table so that the sternum isn't positioned under the vertebrae and next to the heart.
I always take two pics at a different hight, becaus of the difference in hight between the top of the sternum and the rest.

I hope this helped you a bit ;-) 2  out of 2 found this valuable. Do you?