Skeletal musculature

System
Interventional radiology
Dept.
1st Hospital .zzu.
Li zhen
 The aim of this class

• Understand the features of the normal

Musculoskeletal image.
 Examination method

• Conventional X-ray ---Since 8Dec,1896

• CT
• MRI
• Ultrasound
• Nuclear medicine
 X-ray
Announcements:
1.The normotopia view and lateral view
are necessary to any site. Sometimes
oblique view is needed in clinical
practice.
2. X-ray photograph should include the
surrounding soft tissue and adjacent
bone joint to make out its anatomy .
 X-ray
3.For the bilaterally symmetrical joints,if
one seems to be abnormal in the
photographs ,you’d better observe the
other Photographs in the same conditions
to compare.
Eg: knee joint

Metaphysis

Cartilagenous
Epiphyseal plate

marrow
 Growth plate

bones of

fingers

Joint space
diaphysis

End of bone
18ys
 Spine:PA view and lateral view
You cannot see it

thoracic vertebrae

rib Cartilagenous

intervertebral
lumbar
discs
vertebrae
 Epiphyseal plate

pubis
femur

pelvis
bilaterally symmetrical joints
 CT

intervertebral discs

nerve root

intervertebral foramina
 vertebral body

spinous process
 olecranon

radial bone
humerus

ulna
bones of toes
• Malformation ?!

• Which examination
method will you
select ?

• Why ??
 The keys

• X-ray !

• Directly
• Cheap/economical
skull
knee joint
MRI

muscle

disease
Low signal
T1WI T2WI
Thank you for
your
attention!!