Early X-ray
X-rays were discovered in 1895 in which country
What is Germany?
The characteristic most often used to describe the energy of an x-ray beam is its
What is wavelength?
The access point for the radiographer to determine the exposure factors and to initiate the exposure is called the
What is the Control Console
An x-ray beam that has been attenuated by matter is called
What is the Remnant Beam
How many electrons does Tungsten have
What is 74
The majority of radiography education programs are based in which educational setting?
What is colleges?
True or False: X-rays can be refracted by a lens?
What is False
When the x-ray tabletop moves independently of the remainder of the table, it is called a:
What is a Floating Table
___________radiation is the principal source of occupational exposure to radiographers
What is Scatter Radiation?
This portion of the X-ray tube is made of borosilicate glass and houses the anode and the cathode
What is the Vacuum?
The inventor of the hot cathode x-ray tube was
Who is William Coolidge?
This portion of an electromagnetic wave shows the maximum positive push or height above the flat resting line
What is the Crest?
An x-ray machine that permits viewing of the x-ray image in motion in real time is called a
What is a Fluoroscope
The _________ __________ is the radiation exposure image which has yet to be post processed into a digital image
What is the Latent Image
What is the electrical charge of the anode
What is Positive
The inventor of the present day intensifying screen was?
Who is Michael Idvorsky Pupin?
Which electromagnetic energy has the shortest wavelength?
A device used to indicate the location of the radiation field and to control its size is called a
What is a Collimator?
Perpendicular to the long axis of the x-ray tube, the photon in the center of the X-ray is known as
What is the Central Ray
Where is the wire filament positioned
What is at electronically negative Cathode end of the tube
Who developed the first fluoroscope machine?
Who is Thomas Edison
The number of times per second that a crest passes a given point
The X-ray tube has two focusing cups with a filament.
Name the two and give an example of a body part that would be X-rayed using each one.
4 part answer
Small- Toe
Large- Chest
Which direction does Remnant (Exit) Radiation travel?
What is the Direction of the Primary Beam
What type of IR plate goes through a reader before it will display on a monitor
What is Photostimulable?