Who discovered x-rays? - Correct Answer Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
When were x-rays discovered? - Correct Answer November 8, 1895 in Germany
What are the 3 Cardinal Principals of radiation protection? - Correct Answer Maximize distance, maximize shielding, minimize time
What is Erythema...
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Who discovered x-rays? - Correct Answer Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
When were x-rays discovered? - Correct Answer November 8, 1895 in Germany
What are the 3 Cardinal Principals of radiation protection? - Correct Answer Maximize distance,
maximize shielding, minimize time
What is Erythema? - Correct Answer Reddening of the skin
What is Anemia? - Correct Answer Decrease of oxygen in blood, low blood count
What is Leukopenia? - Correct Answer Low WBC count
What is epilation? - Correct Answer Loss of hair
What does ALARA stand for? - Correct Answer As Low As Reasonably Achievable
What is collimation? - Correct Answer Limits the size/area of the x-ray beam
What is a proton? - Correct Answer Positively charged, in nucleus of atom
What is a neutron? - Correct Answer No electrical charge, in nucleus of atom
What is a electron? - Correct Answer Negatively charged, in orbital shell around nucleus of an atom
What is an ion? - Correct Answer A charged particle
,What is ionization? - Correct Answer Process of an electron leaving its orbit around a neutral atom
What is an ion pair? - Correct Answer An electron and a positive charged atom
What does isotropic mean? - Correct Answer Equal in all directions
What is energy? - Correct Answer The ability to do work
What is mass? - Correct Answer The quantity of matter
What is matter? - Correct Answer Anything that occupies space and has mass
What travels at 186,000 miles/second? - Correct Answer All electromagnetic radiation
Does electromagnetic radiation have mass? - Correct Answer No
What has higher energy than visible light? - Correct Answer X-rays
What happens when x-rays are absorbed by body tissue? - Correct Answer Causes ionization of atoms
and molecules
Ionization can result in what type of damage? - Correct Answer Biological Damage
What is radioplaque? - Correct Answer DOES NOT go through
What is radiolucent? - Correct Answer Sees through
A special mechanism that stops tube movement at a specific location is? - Correct Answer Detent
, What device receives the energy of the x-ray beam and forms the image of the body part? - Correct
Answer Image Receptor
What type of cassette containing film receives x-ray beam? - Correct Answer Film based
What is a latent image? - Correct Answer A hidden image
A cassette containing film receives the x-ray beam. The film now contains a latent image and will become
visible after being processed in a? - Correct Answer Dark room
What type of cassette containing a phosphor plate receives the x-ray beam? - Correct Answer
Computed Radiography
In CR, the phosphor plate will be scanned by a? - Correct Answer Laser
An electronic plate receives the x-ray beam and produces and electronic signal that is sent directly to a
computer for processing and digital image formation? - Correct Answer Direct/Digital
What prevents scatter radiation from reaching the IR? - Correct Answer Grid
What includes a tray to hold the IR? - Correct Answer Bucky
What does the collimator do? - Correct Answer Limits the size of the radiation field
What does transverse mean? - Correct Answer Movement of the x-ray tube across the patient from left
to right
What does longitudinal mean? - Correct Answer Movement of the x-ray tube from the foot end toward
the head end of the patient
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