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Final exam RAD 201

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What is USE factor ? The fraction or percentage of time that the primary radiation beam is directed at a specific structural barrier during X-ray .
What is workload? It is the radiation output weighted time that the unit is actually delivering radiation during the week.
______________________a diagnostic x-ray unit should not be touched while a radiographic exposure is in progress? Tube housing, collimator, and high-tension cables
Whenever scattered radiation decreases, the radiographer’s exposure ______________? Decreases.
___________________ determine the exact shielding requirements for a particular imaging facility? Medical physicist
What are the sensing devices most often used to measure skin dose directly? Thermoluminescent dosimeters
Studies of groups such as the atomic bomb survivors of Hiroshima have shown that damage to the newborn is unlikely for doses below _________ ? 0.2 Gy.
______________ is frequently a problem in diagnostic pediatric radiography? Patient motion
Essentially all diagnostic medical procedures result in fetal exposures ______________, so that _______________________? Of less than 0.01 Gy; the risk of abnormality is very small
Reducing the field size to the anatomic features of interest not only reduces patient exposure but also ___________________ ? increases completed image quality by decreasing scatter.
A blotchy radiographic image that results when an insufficient quantity of x-ray photons reaches the image receptor is called ___________? quantum noise, or mottle.
What is a minimal source-skin distance, When performing a mobile radiographic procedure, to reduce the radiation exposure to the patient? 30 cm.
When obtaining a dorsoplantar projection of a foot, ________________ should be used to provide a greater uniform density of the anatomy? Wedge filter
In digital radiography the number of different shades of gray that can be stored in memory and displayed on a computer monitor is termed _________ ? Grayscale
Luminance is determined by measuring the concentration of light ____________ ? over a particular field of view.
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