RADIATION PROTECTION
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IMAGING PROCEDURES
PATIENT CARE AND EDUCATION
100
An ionization-type survey meter is used to measure this during irradiation of a patient.
What is scatter?
100
The mass-energy equivalency of electromagnetic energy and matter was first predicted by this person.
Who is Albert Einstein?
200
This type of personnel monitoring device is recommended by the manufacturer to not be worn more than one month due to environmental factors.
What is a film badge
200
During x-ray production photons are created at a broad spectrum of energies. This is the term the best describes this type of emission spectrum.
What is heterogeneous?
300
This is the amount of energy that is transferred to a material per unit length of travel in soft tissue.
What is linear energy transfer or LET?
300
The thickness of absorbing material necessary to reduce the x-ray intensity to half of its original value is known as this:
What is half-value layer thickness.
400
These devices are utilized to reduce the level of exposure to the operator during fluoroscopy.
What is the fluoroscopic drape and a bucky slot cover?
400
Aluminum and lucite are the most common material used for this:
What is filtration of a diagnostic x-ray beam?
500
A gonadal shield with a .5 mm lead equivalent is able to attenuate approximately this amount of the incident x-rays for a 75 kVp beam.
What is 88%
500
This has a significant effect on the energies produced during the characteristic x-ray production process.
What is the atomic number of the material in the target of the x-ray tube?
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