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2023-2024 Official General Catalog [Archived Catalog]
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RAD 204 L - Advanced Positioning
Instruction and practice in positioning techniques involving the skull, facial bones, and advanced radiographic procedures and sectional anatomy.
Prerequisite- Corequisite
Prerequisite: RAD 133 Clinical Education III
Credits: 1
Hours
2 Laboratory Hour
Course Profile
Learning Outcomes of the Course:
Upon successful completion of this course the student will be able to:
- Identify and describe the patient positioning, CR direction, tube angulation, centering point, anatomical structures demonstrated, and evaluation criteria for the required radiographic positions/projections involving the skull, sinuses, orbits, and facial bones.
- Identify the position/projection demonstrated on radiographic images of the skull, sinuses, orbits, and facial bones.
- Perform or simulate the required radiographic positions/projections on phantoms or live subject, respectively, utilizing appropriate communication skills and radiation safety measures.
- Perform 90% on practical evaluations with each of the following areas of the head; sinuses, orbits, and facial bones.
- Identify and explain the following Advanced Radiographic procedures; Pediatric Radiography, Bone Densitometry, Radiography of the Respiratory System, Radiography of the Genito-Urinary System, and Radiography of the Reproductive System.
- Identify the basic sectional anatomy of the brain, thorax, abdomen, pelvis and extremities.
- Correlate and identify sectional anatomy on CT & MRI images.
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