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Formulas and Physics
Structure of Matter and Electromagnetic Energy
The X-Ray Circuit
The X-Ray Tube and X-Ray Production
X-Ray Emission and X-Ray Interactions with Matter
100

Radiowaves, light and x-rays are all examples of what kind of energy?

What is electromagnetic?

100
Who created the "electrified plum pudding" model?
Who is J.J. Thompson?
100
What is the unit of electric potential?
What is a volt?
100

The cathode side of the tube should be directed toward what part of the patient?

What is the thicker side?

100
If the distance from the SID is reduced by half, how is the x-ray intensity at the image affected?
What is increased 4 times?
200
Who was the first fatality from x-ray exposure reported in 1904?
Who is Clarence Dally?
200
An atom that loses or gains one or more electron is called what?
What is an ion?
200
Rubber and glass are examples of what?
What are insulators?
200
Projectile electrons travel from _____ to _____.
What is Cathode to Anode?
200
The penetrability of an x-ray bean is called x-ray what?
What is quality?
300
Newtons second law of motion is written mathematically as what formula?
What is F=ma
300
What is the diagnostic range of x-ray energy (in kVp)
What is 30-150 kVp?
300
Name three main parts of the x-ray imaging system.
What is x-ray tube, operating console, and high voltage generator?
300
Electron interactions at the inner shell of the target atoms produce what kind of radiation?
What is characteristic?
300
An incident x-ray interacts with an atom WITHOUT IONIZATION during what interaction?
What is coherent scattering?
400
The largest source of natural (background) radiation comes from what?
What is Radon?
400
What is the velocity of all electromagnetic radiation?
What is 3X10^8 m/s?
400
This component of the x-ray circuit will adjust the incoming power to an accurate and continuous 220 V so that it may be used by the circuit. This is also the input termimal for the autotransformer.
What is the line compensator?
400
What kind of x-rays are produced by slowing electrons at the target?
What is Bremsstrahlung x-rays?
400
This interaction occurs at very high energies and is used in Nuclear Medicine in PET Scans
What is pair production?
500

Using Ohm's Law, how do you solve for I?

I = V/R

500
The horizontal rows in the periodic table of elements denotes what about the atom?
What is the number of electron shells?
500

Four things the resistance of a conductor depends

M material

A area

Length

Temperature

500
A 15% increase in kVp is equal to doing what to the mAs?
What is doubling?
500
Which x-ray interaction involves the ejection of the k-shell electron?
What is photoelectric absorption?