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RADT 100 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS Three things helped pave the way to the discovery of x‐rays - Answer️️ -1. Electricity 2. Vacuums 3. Image‐Recording Materials who discovered to the concept of electromagnetic induction and how? - Answer️️ - 1831 - Michael Fa...

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RADT 100 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
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Three things helped pave the way to the discovery of x‐rays - Answer✔️✔️-1. Electricity


2. Vacuums

3. Image‐Recording Materials

who discovered to the concept of electromagnetic induction and how? - Answer✔️✔️-

1831 - Michael Faraday induced electric current by moving a magnet in and out of a coil

Who produced the first radiograph, but wasn't credited for x-ray discovery? -

Answer✔️✔️-William Goodspeed produced a radiograph in 1890

• He was not credited with discovery of X‐ rays

Who was credited of disocvering x -rays? - Answer✔️✔️-William Roentgen

He became interested in cathode ray experiment with the Crooke's tube

• He worked with this tube until he discovered x‐rays

Tell me about Thomas Edison: - Answer✔️✔️-Thomas Edison

• Primary concern was working with

fluoroscopy

• Discovered the use of calcium tungstate over barium platinocyanide

Radioactivity - Answer✔️✔️-here certain elements spontaneously emit ray or subatomic

particles from matter

What 3 were awarded the nobel prize for their work? - Answer✔️✔️-Pierre and

Marie Curie, and

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Henri Becquerel

were awarded the Nobel prize for their work

Are tubes now capable of producing accurate multiple exposures? - Answer✔️✔️-True

Improvements in cassettes, film holders, and image receptors have made them ... -

Answer✔️✔️-durable and

require less radiation -> make accurate diagnoses.

Specialized Areas - Answer✔️✔️-Radiation Therapy - not diagnostic

- Therapy involves treating a patient who is already diagnosed with a disease.



Nuclear Medicine ‐ radiopharmeceuticals

Sonography - sound waves

Special Procedures - Interventional radiology Mammography - of the breast; used to

detect breast cancer; used to screen large segments of the population

Tracers

(think artificially produced; nuc. med) - Answer✔️✔️-Tracers are a substance that emits

radiation



All of the radioactive compounds (tracers) used in nuclear medicine, often called

radionuclides or radiopharmaceuticals, are artificially produced.



The nuclear medicine technologist might also have to administer radioactive material to

patients to treat a specific disease.



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Components of Sonography? - Answer✔️✔️-uses high frequency sound waves to form

an image.

Transducer

Ultrasound beam

An image display on a cathode ray tube or television monitor



• Transducer serves two purposes:

- TRANSMITS sound in pulses and bursts

- SENSES the echoes that are returning from the previous pulse

Interventional radiology - Answer✔️✔️-exams that may improve a patient's condition

• Can help the patient not have to have surgery -



Examples:

• removal of bile ducts or renal stones

• postoperative abscess drainage

• selective cancer therapy



Angiographic studies are performed:

- To demonstrate any vascular Abnormalities

- Demonstrate Pathology in the surrounding tissue and organs

Purpose of MRI - Answer✔️✔️-To obtain 2D views of an internal organ or structure,

(especially the brain and spinal cord)




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