RADT Exam Questions With Correct
Answers
What was significance about Roentgen's role in X-ray ? - answer✔✔Discovered x-rays on
november 8,1895
First x-rays was of his wife's hand
Recieved first nobel prize in physics in 1901
Refused to patent his discovery
Took no commercial offers
Died on Feb. 10, 1923
What was significant about Thomas Edison's role in X-ray? - answer✔✔Determination that
calcium tungstate yielded superior fluorescence
Early experiments with fluoroscopy
(discovered)
• Assistant Clarence Dally first to die in 1904
Who were some of the first
radiographers? - answer✔✔Physicists, photographers, Doctors, Technicians
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What are some of the Important Orgs And their Mission statements? - answer✔✔Arrt -promotes
high standards of pt. care by recognizing qualified indv. In imaging intervention and therapy
ASRT = is to advance the med. Imaging and therapy
profession and enhance pt. care
•TEMA = To protect the State of Illinois through integrated approaches to Emergency
Management and Homeland Security
Other than radiography what are some other modalities in radiology? -
answer✔✔Mammography
• Computed tomography (CT)
• Ultrasound (medical sonography)
Nuclear medicine
• | Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Radiation therapy
Describe how an x-ray room / tube is "set up"? - answer✔✔Anode (stops) photon production (+)
Cathode (source) electron formation (-)
within glass envelope (vacuum)
Collimator
Table (bucky)
Upright (bucky)
What are the prime factors and their effect on images? - answer✔✔mAs= density/ intensity
(mR), exposure, output, quantity / exposure to the IR/ over all darkening