Terminology
Acronyms
Equipment
Quality Control
Misc.
100
In computers, specific step-by-step procedures for software functioning
What are algorithms?
100
ADC
What is Analog-to-Digital Converter?
100
A cassette-based indirect digital image acquisition system
What is Computed Radiography?
100
Inadequate erasure may cause this
What is ghosting?
100
It's 8 bits
What is a byte?
200
A discrete unit used by computers for processing information
What is a bit?
200
PACS
What is Picture Archiving and Communication Systems?
200
It releases the energy trapped in the phosphor layer of an imaging plate
What is laser beam energy?
200
This test pattern is used to evaluate a multiformat camera
What is the Society of Motoin Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE)?
200
It's the measurement of how efficient a system converts x-ray input signals into a useful output image
What is Detective Quantum Efficiency (DQE)?
300
Invisible image recorded on an imaging plate
What is a latent image?
300
PSP
What is Photostimulable Phosphor?
300
It facilitates the tech's interaction with the CR process, including access to patient data and image management
What is the CR workstation?
300
Use this test tool to evaluate spatial accuracy
What is the wire mesh test tool?
300
It's a graphic representation of al the digitally recorded signals of a digital x-ray exposure
What is a histogram?
400
Any unwanted interference in an x-ray signal detection
What is noise?
400
DICOM
What is Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine?
400
Electronic device used to collect and amplify light
What is a photomultiplier tube?
400
Resolution is measured in these units
What is line pairs/millimeter (lp/mm)?
400
LUT
What is Look-Up Table?
500
Manipulation of an image, after exposure, to enhance diagnostic ability
What is post-processing?
500
CCD
What is Charge-coupled Device?
500
Table of numbers that represent the pixel intensity to be displayed on the monitor
What is a matrix?
500
Use this test to assess the transport system of the CR reader and hard-copy printer
What is the laser jitter test?
500
Information contained in a volume of tissue that is converted into numberical values and expressed in pixels
What is a voxel?
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