These professionals use X-rays to examine patients.
What is a doctor?
100
X-rays have a very short _____.
What is a wavelength?
100
Rontgen took an x-ray of his wife's hand and he was able to see her _____.
What are bones?
100
Röntgen used _____ in one of the first x-rays and is still used today
What is photographic film?
100
X-rays are very _____ if overused.
What is harmful?
200
When getting an x-ray it detects the _____ that reflects from the object which forms an image such as the human bone.
What is radiation?
200
X-rays have a very high ______.
What is a frequency?
200
The "x" in X-ray stands for.
What is unknown?
200
These are a more modern way of detecting x-rays which measures x-rays through electrical charge
What are Geiger counters?
200
Name one thing that can protect you from X-rays.
What is lead/tungsten/Uranium?
300
This is a treatment given to cancer patients and requires higher radiation energies than x-ray pictures/images.
What is radiation therapy?
300
This part of an X-ray has a value of 10e-8 to 10e-12
What is wavelength?
300
On November 8, 1895, this man accidentally discovered an image cast from his cathode ray projector, projected far beyond the cathode rays (electron beam).
Who is Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen?
300
X-Rays on Earth are most commonly found in _____.
What are x-ray tubes?
300
In a person it can cause _____. This can bring cell suicide, cell dormancy, and sometimes the formation of a cancerous tumor.
What is DNA mutation?
400
Also known as X-ray crystallography, it is used to determine the structure of crystals in inorganic, organic, and biological materials.
What are diffraction methods?
400
This part of an X-ray has a value of 10e16 to 10e20.
What is frequency?
400
This man invented the x-ray tube. It is now the model for which all x-ray tubes for medical applications are based on.
Who is William Coolidge?
400
Other than medical radiology and securty, X-rays are used to reveal the ______ and _____ of materials
What is structure and composition?
400
If one has _____ and the white blood cells are affected, the body becomes twice as vulnerable to even the mildest of conditions.
What is anemia?
500
Also known as computed tomography, this occurs when images are obtained from multiple 2D x-ray images in different directions. The pics can then be combined into a 3D image of the inside of the body.
What is CT scanning?
500
This part of an X-ray has a value of 2 x 10e-17 to 2 x 10e-14 J.
What is energy?
500
This man invented the CAT-Scan.
Who is Robert Ledley?
500
Characteristics and wavelengths of X-rays can be measured through the interference effects that come from _____.
What are overlapping waves?
500
Name all three things that can protect you from X-rays.