Scatter Radiation
The source of most scatter radiation.
What is the patient?
The bone of the upper arm.
What is the Humerus?
The bone in the upper leg.
What is the femur?
What is Measuring the patient in centimeters?
The typical projections for a chest x-ray.
What are PA and Left lateral upright?
The device that is placed between the patient and the IR to absorb scatter radiation.
What is the Grid?
The anatomical name for the shoulder blade.
What is the scapula?
What is the bone that makes the knee cap.
What is the patella?
Types of Technique Charts.
What is Variable kVP and fixed kVP?
A medical term for breast bone.
What is sternum?
The number of lead strips compared the the interspace between the strips.
What is Grid Ratio?
The bony process that forms the elbow.
What is the Olecranon process?
The larger of the two bones of the lower leg.
What is the tibia?
A listing of various x-ray exams performed in a Radiograph room along with exposure factors.
What is a technique chart?
A bony process at end of breast bone.
What is the xiphoid process?
A type of radiation that operators incur.
What is Compton's Radiation?
The group of bones that make up the wrist.
What are the carpals?
The group of bones that make up the mid section of the foot.
What are metatarsals?
The provider of most Technique Charts.
What are the Manufacturers?
The reason chest x-rays are taken at 72" upright?
What is to reduce magnification or distortion of heart and lungs?
The device worn by the limited radiographer to record their personal exposure dose of scatter radiation.
What is a dosimeter?
The bony protrusion or process at the proximal end of the ulna.
What is the medial epicondyle?
The large protrusion on the lateral side of the proximal femur.
What is the greater trochanter?
After a body part has been measured, Technique charts provide the radiographer with name of x-ray, mA, kVp, SID, Grid ratio and _______________.
What is seconds?
The bottom three regions of the abdomen.
What are the right iliac region, left iliac region and hypogastric region?