Normal Chest CT
Normal Chest CT
http://info.med.yale.edu/surgery/anatomy/radiology/normal_chest_ct_content.php
Yale school of medicine
SLIDE 1
Goals
- Learn the basics of windowing a CT image
- Relate CT slices to a scout (coronal) image
- Relate CT slices to surface anatomy
Slide 2
- [...]
- coronal scout image
- lung tissue
- soft tissue
Slide 3
[...]
- soft tissue
- lung tissue
- windowing
Slide 4
[...]
- soft tissue window
- body wall
- mediastinum
- lung tissue window
- lung
Slide 5
[...]
- remember the 4 densities:
- metal (bone)>water,
- muscle > fat > air
[...]
- Look at easy to recognize structures to calibrate your eye.
- the layer just deep to the skin to see how bright fat is
- vertebral column to see how bright bone is
- muscles behind the vertebral column to see how bright muscle is
- the aorta to see how bright blood is (it will be bright if contrast dye was injected into a vein)
- air is always black
SLIDE 6
- Lots of questions
SLIDE 7
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