Images - Their Clinical Value Post-The Year 1 Assessment

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Types of image
• Plain films.
• Barium and contrast studies.
• Computed tomography (CT).
• Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
• Positron emission tomography (PET).
• Ultrasound.
• Nuclear medicine.

Chest radiographs
Lateral chest X-ray - superseded by CT scans.
Abdomen plain image - psoas major muscle - gluteal muscles.

Contrast studies.
• Injection of suitable medium, into vein.
• IVP - renal excretion.
• T-tube cholangiogram - bile ducts, gall bladder, biliary tree.

Liver - associated blood vessels, porta hepatis.

Contrast studies of bowel.
CTs of abdomen.

Portal system - branches that create portal vein.
Porta-caval system.
Mesenteric vessels.
Mesenteric angiogram.

CT chest.
CT - mediastinal windows.
CT - bony windows.

Lateral skull X-ray.
PA skull X-ray - paranasal sinuses - orbits.

Dentition and eruption dates.

Sagittal T1W MRI brain scan.
Coronal T1W MRI brain scan - ventricles, CSF.
CT of skull.

MRI of abdomen.

Sagittal T1W MRI knee scan.