Heart and Mediastinum - Lecture 5
Learning Objectives
- Be able to identify key anatomic structures on the adult AP and lateral chest x-ray
- Be able to identify key anatomic structures on the pediatric AP and lateral chest x-ray
- Know the location of the esophagus and thoracic duct and the role of contrast in evaluation
- Know the chambers of the heart and their appearance in different imaging modalities
- Understand angiography and the structures being evaluated with right heart catheterization
- Understand the structures being evaluated with left heart catheterization
- Be able to identify the great vessels in the axial plane and by angiogram
- Know the anatomy of the coronary vessels and the tissues supplied by each major branch
Assignments - Thorax: Heart and Mediastinum
- "Chest" chapter in Radiologic Anatomy© computer program.
- Take "On-line Quiz" on chest before the date of Unit II exam. You can take the online quiz up to five times. I will use your best score.. (Note: you are encouraged to practice by using the "self evaluation" feature in the Radiologic Anatomy © program.)
- Review textbook sections on chest with special attention to the following pages
NOTE: These are the same pages that are listed in the heart lecture:
(some of the material from block exam may come from these)
88-PA chest
89-PA chest
90-LAT chest
91-LAT chest
92~95-CT of chest soft tissue windows
96~99-CT of chest lung windows
104~105-MRI of heart coronal
108-pulmonary arteriogram
109-pulmonary venogram
111-coronary angio and left ventriculogram (lateral)
115-arch aortogram and left ventriculogram (ap)
116-left bronchogram
117-right bronchogram
118-mammograms, galactogram, breast MRI
