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Question 1

The X-Ray beam comes out of the ______.

Answer 1

Port

Question 2

What is the glass around the tube called?

Answer 2

Pyrex Glass

Question 3

What is another name for the X-ray tube?

Answer 3

Tube Housing

Question 4

What do we refer to the lab as?

Answer 4

Radiographic Room

Question 5

What are the 2 Primary components of the X-Ray tube?

Answer 5

Anode and Cathode

Question 6

Where does the collimator lie?

Answer 6

Below the tube

Question 7

There are ____ _____ ______ at each end of the tube.

Answer 7

High Voltage Cables

Question 8

The collimator controls the ____ and ____ of the field size.

Answer 8

Size and Shape

Question 9

The X-ray tube is held from the ceiling by a ____.

Answer 9

OTC (overhead tube crane)

Question 10

Which end of the tube is positive?

Answer 10

Anode

Question 11

A hard surface table is designed for ____.

Answer 11

Radiographers

Question 12

Who invented the bucky tray?

Answer 12

Gustave Bucky

Question 13

The X-Ray table must be easy to clean for _____________ purposes.

Answer 13

Infection Control

Question 14

What must the X-ray tube stay aligned with?

Answer 14

Bucky

Question 15

The _____ _______ is where the RT make the technique selection.

Answer 15

Control Console

Question 16

What are the three technique selections?

Answer 16

kVp, mA, time

Question 17

What type of equipment takes a ‘real time’ image?

Answer 17

Fluoroscopy

Question 18

If Fluoro is live then _______ is being produced.

Answer 18

Radiation

Question 19

Who is allowed to operate the fluoro machine?

Answer 19

Radiologist

Question 20

A good X-ray can also be called _____.

Answer 20

Good Diagnostic image

Question 21

When an X-ray has to be repeated it is called _______?

Answer 21

non-diagnostic image

Question 22

What are the 4 requirements to produce an X-ray?

Answer 22

1. Vacuum
2. source of electrons
3. Rapid acceleration of electrons by applying voltage
4. a target to stop the moving electrons

Question 23

What is the X-ray leaving the tube called?

Answer 23

X-ray photons or X-ray beam

Question 24

The photons/beam before it reaches and interacts with the patients body is called _____.

Answer 24

Primary Radiation

Question 25

What is the beam that exits the body called?

Answer 25

Remnant Radiation

Question 26

If the beam interacts with the body matter and changes direction, it is called ______ ________?

Answer 26

Scatter Radiation

Question 27

________ is described as not easily penetrable by x-rays or other forms radiant energy.

Answer 27

Radiopaque

Question 28

Permitting the passage of x-rays or other forms of radiant energy with little attenuation is called _________?

Answer 28

Radiolucent

Question 29

_____ and _____ will determine if your image is acceptable.

Answer 29

mAs and kVp

Question 30

What controls the quantity of photons produced?

Answer 30

mAs

Question 31

How is mAs calculated?

Answer 31

mA x time (seconds)= mAs

Question 32

What prime factor is in charge of sending electrons from the cathode to anode side?

Answer 32

kVp

Question 33

______ controls the penetrating ability of the beam and primarily affects the quality but also the quantity of the x-ray photons produced.

Answer 33

kVp

Question 34

What is the distance betweEn the point of x-ray emission in the x-ray tube and the IR?

Answer 34

SID

Question 35

Cassette based digital radiography; the digital acquisition modality that uses storage phosphor plates to produce images.

Answer 35

CR (computed radiography)

Question 36

Cassette-less image receptor systems that connect x-ray energy into the digital electronic signal for manipulation and display.

Answer 36

DR (digital radiography)

Question 37

____ is described as how dark your image is on the monitor.

Answer 37

IR exposure

Question 38

The difference between IR exposures on a radiographic image is _______.

Answer 38

Contrast

Question 39

Image manipulation parameter that changes image contrast on the display monitor, usually through the use of a mouse.

Answer 39

Window Width

Question 40

What is the technical factor controlling IR exposure?

Answer 40

mAs

Question 41

What technical factor controls contrast?

Answer 41

kVp

Question 42

What contrast has few gray tones

Answer 42

High Contrast

Question 43

What contrast has high kVp value?

Answer 43

Low contrast

Question 44

What contrast is Long-scale contrast?

Answer 44

Low contrast

Question 45

What contrast has narrow exposure latitude?

Answer 45

High contrast

Question 46

What contrast has low kVp values?

Answer 46

High contrast

Question 47

What contrast is short-scaled contrast?

Answer 47

High contrast

Question 48

what contrast has wide exposure latitude?

Answer 48

Low contrast

Question 49

What contrast goes from white to black quickly?

Answer 49

High contrast

Question 50

Which contrast if for larger body parts?

Answer 50

Low contrast

Question 51

Which contrast is for smaller body parts?

Answer 51

High Contrast

Question 52

What decreases the amount of scatter radiation reaching the IR, which improves image quality increases contrast?

Answer 52

Bucky mechanism

Question 53

X-ray tables are _____ and moveable in any combination of two directions.

Answer 53

Radiolucent