'Oblique' Searchterm 'Oblique' found in 4 terms [ • ] and 4 definitions [• ]Result Pages : • Oblique
A plane or section not perpendicular to the xyz coordinate system, such as long and short axis views of the heart. See also Orientation, Mediolateral-Oblique View, Lateral View, Lateromedial, Breast Imaging, and Stack. • • • (MLO) The mediolateral-oblique view is one of the standard two views of the breast. The image receptor of the mammography system is horizontally angled 30 to 60 degrees. The cassette assembly is parallel aligned to the pectoral muscle and the corner of the cassette holder fits comfortably into the axilla. The x-ray beam is directed from the superomedial to the inferolateral part of the breast.
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If available, some graphic aids can be helpful to show image orientations. 1) A graphic icon of the labeled primary axes (A, L, H) with relative lengths given by direction sines and system of coordinates as if viewed from the normal to the image plane can help orient the viewer, both to identify image plane orientation and to indicate possible in plane rotation. 2) In graphic prescription of obliques from other images, a sample original image with an overlaid line or set of lines indicating the intersection of the original and oblique image planes can help orient the viewer.
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The F/H location can be specified relative to a convenient patient structure. The orientation of single oblique slices can be specified by rotating a slice in one of the basic orientations toward one of the other two basic orthogonal planes about an axis defined by the intersection of the 2 planes. Double oblique slices can be specified as the result of tipping a single oblique plane toward the remaining basic orientation plane, about an axis defined by the intersection of the oblique plane and the remaining basic plane. In double oblique angulations, the first rotation is chosen about the vertical image axis and the second about the (new) horizontal axis. Angles are chosen to have magnitudes less than 90° (for single oblique slices less than 45°); the sign of the angle is taken to be positive when the rotation brings positive axes closer together. Result Pages : |