Measure Twice, Shoot Once
Safety 101
In A Better Position
General Radiology
100
This device is used to measure the thickness of anatomic parts
What is a caliper?
100
This device is a method used to monitor one's personal amount of radiation received, it contains a radiation-sensitive film.
What is a film badge?
100
This describes the area nearer to the point of origin of a structure.
What is proximal?
100
In 1895 this man discovered x-rays.
Who is Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen?
200
This device is used to improve the quality of your x-ray and reduce scatter radiation.
What is the collimator?
200
The lead equipment will only protect you from this kind of radiation.
What is Scatter radiation?
200
All views of this anatomy part(s) should be pointed downward.
What are extremities?
200
The x-ray tube consists of these 2 electrodes.
What is the cathode & anode?
300
This describes the electrical difference between the cathode & the anode, it is responsible for accelerating the electrons from the cathode to the anode & relates to the penetrating power of the x-rays.
What is kVp?
300
This occurs as an effect of radiation that occurs to the genes of reproductive cells.
What is genetic damage?
300
When radiographing a dorsopalmar view of an animals limb, the primary x-ray beam enters the ______ of the paw and exits through the ______.
What is the front and then back.
300
This chart is based on tissue thickness and anatomic part that can be consulted for pre-determined machine settings.
What is the technique chart?
400
This is the distance between the source of x-rays & the image receptor or film.
What is Source-imaging distance?
400
This type of damage occurs in the body with-in the lifetime of the recipient.
What is somatic damage?
400
The patient is placed in lateral recumbency, with the affected side down and the extremity extended forward & ventral. The opposite side is pulled in a caudodorsal direction and the neck is extended dorsally. What are we taking an x-ray of?
What is a lateral shoulder x-ray view?
400
This results when there is an interaction of the primary beam with objects in its path.
What is scatter radiation (secondary radiation)?
500
A measure of electron current to the filament, which has a direct relationship to the number of x-rays produced.
What is mA?
500
This restraint technique will increase the distance between the source of scatter radiation and the restrainer.
What is standing in an upright position?
500
This uses the principle of geometry, the film is placed perpendicular to the object and the beam is then directed at an angle that is midway between the film and the object.
What is "The Bisecting Angle Technique"?
500
The path that x-rays follow as they leave the tube.
What is the primary beam.
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