RadPos

7/13/99

Upper Extremity

• Humerus
• 2 views
• stand in anatomical position
• 14´ 17--collimate
• kVp 70, grid
• never use gray border extremity film w/a grid
• need grid b/c of thickness of shoulder
• lateral
• baby arm view
• if broken, can't do this
• shoot through body--Goldening view (transthoracic)

Elbow

• 4 views
• marker up in the corner
• lead vinyl under the cassette
• 2 shots for the person who can't fully extend elbow

• lateral
• elbow at the corner to film
• look at distal humer and prox forearm that is needed
• use lead vinyl to protect scatter and other part of film
• humerus is flat/parallel to film
• thumb is pointing towards the ceiling

• jone's view
• bent fully
• humerus is parallel to film plane
• tip of elbow to
• ~4inches

forearm

• fully extended and palm up
• calculate in proximal forearm
• may have to filter distal end
• lateral—just like lateral elbow just move CR

Wrist

• ap
• fist closed
• tea cup, oblique
• lateral
• 4 view is tailored to situation
• scaphoid
• 45° back towards the wrist
• arm is at 45° in relation to long axis of the table
• CR should enter at the snuff box
• Greater than lateral technique

• Carpal tunnel
• Dorsiflex the hand
• Palm down flat w/forearm 90°
• Tube at 45°
• Lateral and increasemAs