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X-ray
Equipment
PHYSICS
MISC
ATOM
100
November 8th 1895
What is the date x-rays were discovered?
100
Device used to protect IR from being fogged by scatter radiation.
What is grid or Bucky?
100
Smallest possible unit of electromagnetic energy:
What is a photon?
100
What type of device increases voltage approximately 500 times?
What is the step-up transformer?
100
What is potential energy?
What is energy of position?
200
Inventor of x-rays
Who is Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen?
200
ABSORPTION OF X-RAYS BY MATTER:
What is attenuation?
200
Name the two types/processes of x-rays created at the anode:
What is Bremsstrahlung and Characteristic?
200
Inadequate exposure technique will produce what type of artifact:
What is quantum mottle?
200
When an electron is removed from an atom:
What is ionization?
300
Order for an x-ray should be issued by the:
What is the physician?
300
A radiation hazard exists in the x-ray room:
What is throughout the room during the exposure?
300
Name given to the distance in a sine wave from one crest to another crest:
What is wavelength?
300
Atomic number of atom is represented by the number of:
What are protons?
300
Electromagnetic energy is energy that is emitted and transferred through matter.
What is TRUE?
400
Organization that provides accreditation for limited x-ray schools:
What is JRCERT? Bonus: what does each letter stand for?
400
The image receptor system may consist of:(2 things)Filmless
What is cassette and phosphor plate?
400
Principal advantage of high speed rotating anode:
What is More efficient heat dissipation?
400
DOUBLE BONUS:Three things on a viewing monitor that should be checked regularly:
What is resolution, viewing surface/air flow, Image quality using a test pattern?
400
Shell in atom that contains least number of electrons:
What is K shell?
500
Bone densitometry is a specialized x-ray machine and procedure that measures:
What is bone mineral content?
500
Surrounds the x-ray tube and is lead lined
What is tube housing?
500
DOUBLE BONUS: Name 5 characteristics of x-rays:
What is no mass, highly penetrating, invisible,travel in straight lines, can ionize matter.
500
BONUS: Fundamental particles that compose atoms:
What are neutrons, protons and electrons?