What is Follow up on a suspicious findings
Broken bones
Diagnose cancer
Comparing tumor before and after treatment
Screening for cancer?
100
True or false: x-rays take a long time to develop?
What is false? short time often on the same day
100
True or false: x-ray are used to treat cancer?
False the are used to diagnose cancer.
200
This tissue can not absorb large amounts of radiation
What is soft tissue?
200
An x-ray takes this amount of time
What is 10-15 min?
200
This is used to outline specific areas on the body when ingested prior to an x-ray
What is a contrast medium?
200
usually x-rays are used to detect what types of cancer?
What is lung and bone cancer?
300
These particles make up an x-ray beam that are the result of electrons leaving the atoms.
What are photons?
300
Name two things that the patient may be asked to remove prior to an x-ray
What is clothing, jewelry, watches, glasses?
300
What is the total length of recovery time after an x-ray?
What is no recovery time?
300
When you have a tumor in your bone, how does it appear on the x-ray?
What is holes in bones as well as bones can looked “ragged”?
400
2 ways in which x-ray images are developed
What is film and digital imaging?
400
This sound indicates that the x-ray has been completed
What is a buzz or beep?
400
list one of the things that doses of ionizing radiation can cause.
What is cancer or other defects?
400
The type of x-ray used to detect breast cancer?
What is mammography?
500
list one pro and con of an x-ray
What is Detect broken bones
Detect abnormalities
Detect tumors
Lung cancer
Bone cancer?
What is Scan is limited
Produce only a flat 2 dimensional image
Patients exposed to amounts of ionizing radiation
Cannot detect between cancerous tumors and non cancerous tumors?
500
This appears various shades of grey on a developed x-ray
What is tissues and organs?
500
The number of days of natural radiation that amounts to the radiation of a single chest x-ray.
What is 10 days?
500
How does a tumor in your lungs appear on an x-ray?