NWHSU Skel Rad Midterm Exam Questions Correct Answers Current Update (A+ Pass)
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NWHSU Skel Rad Midterm Exam Questions Correct Answers Current Update (A+ Pass)
Who discovered x-rays and received a nobel prize for his findings? - Answers - Wilhelm Roentgen
What is the ratio of x-ray takings that have negative cancer effect? - Answers - 1:25,000
X-rays expose what type o...
NWHSU Skel Rad Midterm Exam
Questions Correct Answers
Current Update (A+ Pass)
Who discovered x-rays and received a nobel prize for his findings? - Answers -✔✔
Wilhelm Roentgen
What is the ratio of x-ray takings that have negative cancer effect? - Answers -✔✔
1:25,000
X-rays expose what type of film? - Answers -✔✔ Photographic or radiographic
What does the emulsion in the film have in it? - Answers -✔✔ Silver salts
What do the X-ray lights disrupt on the film when X-rays are taken? - Answers -✔✔
Silver salts/crystals
What does the adhesive do in the film? - Answers -✔✔ It is stuck with silver salts when
the X-rays disrupts them
What is the most opaque on an X-ray? - Answers -✔✔ Metal
What is the most lucent on an X-ray? - Answers -✔✔ Air
What is the most penetrated on an X-ray? - Answers -✔✔ Air
What is the least penetrated on an X-ray? - Answers -✔✔ Metal
Soft tissue is more lucent than air T or F - Answers -✔✔ False.
Bone is more opaque than metal T or F - Answers -✔✔ False
Fat is more opaque than air T or F - Answers -✔✔ True
Dental fillings, joint prostheses and surgical staples could be classified as what on an X-
ray? - Answers -✔✔ Metal
Gallstones, cartilage calcifications and plaque are examples of what on an X-ray? -
Answers -✔✔ Bone
, Muscles, tendons, heart and tumors show up as what on an X-ray? - Answers -✔✔
Soft tissue/water
Bone marrow, fatty tumors and subcutaneous fat show up as what on an X-ray? -
Answers -✔✔ Fat
Gas gangrene and paranasal sinuses show up as what on an X-ray? - Answers -✔✔
Air
Upright or weight bearing positioning is when the patient is doing what? - Answers -✔✔
Standing up
Recumbent or non weight bearing position is when the patient is doing what? - Answers
-✔✔ Lying down
On an AP X-ray the patients back is most closest to the film or X-ray? - Answers -✔✔
Film
On a PA X-ray the patients back is most closest to the film or X-ray? - Answers -✔✔ X-
ray
Which X-ray position is taken with the patient 90 degrees to the film? - Answers -✔✔
Lateral
What X-ray position is taken with the patient 45 degrees to the film? - Answers -✔✔
Oblique
You should orient the film on the view box to make the lead marker readable T or F -
Answers -✔✔ False
What is most important when hanging X-rays? - Answers -✔✔ Consistency
Orthopedic surgeons and chiropractors hang X-rays with as if the patient was facing
them or facing away from them? - Answers -✔✔ Away from them
Lateral X rays can be hung in either direction T or F - Answers -✔✔ True
You have identified a left X-ray marker on the film, how should you place the film on the
viewbox? - Answers -✔✔ So that the marker is on your left side.
Is it possible to tell a PA from a AP X-ray? - Answers -✔✔ Its pretty much impossible
On a left lateral X-ray the patients left side is closest to what? - Answers -✔✔ The film
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