Terminology
A form of energy carried by waves or a stream of particles.
What is radiation?
adiaUsed to produce radiographs, or x-ray films.
What is the X-ray machines.
Used to restrict the size and shape of the x-ray beam and reduce patient exposure.
What is collimation?
Mask, gown, glasses, and gloves are an example of.
What is PPE?
A processing error; film appears yellow-brown; results from exhausted developer or fixer, insufficient fixation time, or insufficient rinsing.
What is yellow-brown film?
A beam of energy that has the power to penetrate substances and record image shadows on receptors.
What is X-ray?
An image that shows the wide view of the maxilla and the mandible and surrounding structures.
What is panoramic?
A flexible lead shield placed over the patient's chest and lap to protect the reproductive and blood-forming tissues from the scatter radiation.
What is lead apron?
Where needled are disposed of
What is the Sharp's container?
Intraoral image that is used to examine the crowns and roots of the teeth.
What is periapical?
Used to examine large areas of the maxilla and mandible on one image.
What is occlusal examination?
Tightly sealed, heavy metal housing that contains the x-ray tube that produces dental x-rays.
What is a tubehead?
A flexible shield that is placed securely around the patient's neck to protect the thyroid gland from scatter radiation.
What is thyroid collar?
Protects dental staff from cross contamination to patients.
What is Personal Protective Equipment?
An image that results when a receptor is placed inside the mouth and exposed to x-rays; intraoral receptors are used to examine the teeth.
What is intraoral image?
Results from excessive exposure time, kilovoltage, or milliamperage, or a combination of these factors.
What is overexposed image?
Open-ended, lead-lined cylinder that extends from the opening of the metal housing of the tubehead-aims and shapes the x-ray beam.
What is PID?
The amount of x-radiation that reaches the body of the dental radiographer can be measured through the use of a personnel-monitoring device.
What is radiation monitoring badge?
This machines sterilizes instruments.
What is the autoclave?
An image that results when a receptor is placed outside the mouth and exposed to x-rays; extraoral receptors are used to examine large areas of the skull or jaws.
What is extraoral image?
Used to describe the alignment of the central ray of the x-ray beam in the horizontal and vertical planes.
What is angulation?
The aluminum or leaded-glass covering the tubehead that permits the exit of x-rays from the tubehead-seals the oil in the tubehead and acts as a filter to the x-ray beam.
What is tubehead seal?
Occupationally exposed workers must not exceed an accumulated lifetime radiation dose.
What is cumulative occupational dose?
The most important infection control measure taken.
What is hand washing?
A method of obtaining a digital image from a sensor after exposure to X-rays by using a scanner to convert information into a digital form so that it can be viewed on a computer monitor.
What is indirect digital imaging?