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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are your 2 X-ray settings | KvP and mA |
| KvP | Power of energy |
| mA | Increases or decreases amount of electrons |
| What are the three effects of X-ray on patient and what they look like? | No interaction (Black), Absorbed (Bone, white), Scattered (grey) |
| What is the % absorbed by film | 3% |
| What is the % absorbed by intensifying screen? | 30% |
| How many views should you get? | 2 minimum if poss, 4 is best |
| What makes quality rads | Good positioning, appropriate technique, appropriate labeling and 2 views |
| What can go wrong with your rads? | Over exposure and underexposure |
| Which is worse, overexposure or underexposure | overexposure |
| What occurs with overexposed rads? | Lose a lot of info, may not see anything at all |
| What occurs with underexposed rads? | May see artifacts, lose some detail |
| Best environment for viewing rads | dim lighting, quiet and undisturbed, having enough boxes, bright light, don't rush |
| Positions for viewing laterals? | Cranial is always left, Rostral is always left, dorsal is always top. |
| Positions for viewing ventrodorsals? | Left on right, right on left, cranial is top. |
| What are mach bands? | Optical illusions that make lines where there are none when there is a gradient change. |
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