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General Principles

  • Proper Patient Positioning
    • Patient comfort comes first, so may be difficult at times especially in cases of casting, fracture, or uncooperation
    • Allows for easier reformats
    • Reduces radiation dose to the patient
  • Reformats
    • Always include the entire field of view of the source images in the reformatted images
  • Soft tissue mass evaluation
    • Use palpable markers to bracket the area of palpable abnormality
    • Scan approximately 5 cm above and below the region of palpable abnormalit
    • If study is ordered noncontrast, please check if patient can get intravenous contrast
  • Arthrograms
    • Dilute iodinated contrast with sterile saline or water in a 50/50 ratio
  • Long Bone Protocol
    • Includes humerus, forearm, femur, and lower leg/extremity
    • Cover entire long bone in the field of view and surrounding soft tissues to the skin surface
    • Axial reformats perpendicular to the long bone diaphysis
    • Sagittal and coronal reformats parallel to the long bone diaphysis
    • Be sure to include entire source field of view in the reformats

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