X-ray Tube
What is the function of the cathode to produce?
What is a thermionic cloud of electrons?
What is the most common configuration of cells with Automatic Exposure Control?
What is 3 chambers, a center chamber and the left and right chamber slightly higher and lateral?
Where does x-ray photon production occur?
What is the anode?
Filament materials are chosen primarily for their what?
What is high melting point?
When more than 1 chamber is used with AEC, the signal is what?
What is averaged?
What type of interaction creates scatter x-ray photons?
What is Compton Scatter?
What kind of charge does the focusing cup have?
What is negative?
With an AP lumbar, what ionization chamber is used?
What is the center cell?
At the end of a characteristic cascade, the ____ shell is missing at electron.
What is outermost?
What is the only portion of the x-ray tube that is placed out of the vacuum of the glass envelope?
What is the stator?
What is the backup time of most AECs with the anticipated manual exposure time?
What is 150%?
What is the name of the electrons traveling from the cathode filament to the anode?
What is incident electrons?
What is the focal spot called that is projected outside of the tube toward the object being radiographed?
What is the effective focal spot?
What were the earliest AEC technology called?
What is a phototimer?
The energy of a characteristic photon can be determined by what?
What is the difference between the binding energy of the outer & inner shells where the electron dropped?