Soft Tissue Neck (STN)
•Patient naked from the waist up!
•Collimation includes frontal sinus to thoracic inlet •No earrings!!!!! •X-table lateral on the babybox •72-inch SID lateral •Remember..this is a two-tech job! •Extend chin! •Take exposure during inspiration! |
•Naked from the waist up!
•Bucky/grid with CR plate • non-grid with DR plate •Position like an AP axial c-spine •Extend chin (occlusal line perpendicular) •Elbows by the ears and thumbs on the forehead to control rotation •Angle tube 10-15° cephalad •Take exposure during inspiration |