Radiography

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Quiz am Radiography, erstellt von Laura Purssell am 30/05/2015.
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Frage 1

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What does radiolucent mean?
Antworten
  • Opaque to x-rays
  • Invisible to x-rays

Frage 2

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What density is radiopaque?
Antworten
  • Metal
  • Air

Frage 3

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Are all of these labels correct?
Antworten
  • Yes
  • No

Frage 4

Antworten
  • Focusing cup
  • Filament
  • Target (anode)
  • Rotor

Frage 5

Antworten
  • Focusing cup
  • Filament
  • Target (anode)
  • Rotor

Frage 6

Antworten
  • Glass envelope
  • Filament
  • Electrons
  • Bearings

Frage 7

Antworten
  • Glass envelope
  • Filament
  • Electrons
  • Bearings

Frage 8

Antworten
  • Glass envelope
  • Electrons
  • Filament
  • Bearings

Frage 9

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What is the heel effect?
Antworten
  • The beam is more concentrated on the cathode side
  • The beam is more concentrated on the anode side
  • The imaginary line following the centremost part of the beam
  • The imaginary line following the outermost part of the beam

Frage 10

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What is the central ray?
Antworten
  • The beam is more concentrated on the cathode side
  • The beam is more concentrated on the anode side
  • An imaginary line following the centremost part of the beam
  • An imaginary line following the outermost part of the beam

Frage 11

Frage
Controlling the size of the beam is a legal requirement
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 12

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Keeping the beam large makes the image sharper
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 13

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If a smaller volume of tissue is irradiated, is a smaller or larger scatter generated?
Antworten
  • Smaller
  • Larger

Frage 14

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Is scatter desirable?
Antworten
  • Yes - it causes sharpness of the image and decreases the patient's radiation dose
  • No - it causes unsharpness of the image and increases the patient's radiation dose

Frage 15

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What structure controls the beam?
Antworten
  • Collimator
  • Target (anode)
  • Filament
  • Grid

Frage 16

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How does a collimator work?
Antworten
  • Reflects/absorbs the x-rays
  • Concentrates the beam

Frage 17

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Where should the patient be placed in regards to the Bucky and tube?
Antworten
  • Close to the Bucky, far away from the tube
  • Far away from the Bucky, close to the tube
  • Close to the Bucky, close to the tube
  • Far away from the Bucky, far away from the tube

Frage 18

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What is true regarding the beam passing through the patient?
Antworten
  • Some x-rays are absorbed and stop their travel
  • Some are scattered and continue to travel
  • All scattered x-rays continue to travel in the correct direction
  • A remnant beam exits the patient
  • The remnant beam is accompanied by any scatter travelling in a similar direction
  • All scattered x-rays will accompany the remnant beam

Frage 19

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What are correct facts regarding the Bucky?
Antworten
  • It is placed immediately in front of the patient
  • It has a tray to hold the receptor
  • It has a grid to allow as much scatter as possible to reach the receptor
  • It has a grid to prevent as much scatter as possible from reaching the receptor
  • There are different types of grids

Frage 20

Antworten
  • Collimator
  • Bucky
  • Grid
  • Receptor
  • Filament

Frage 21

Antworten
  • Collimator
  • Bucky
  • Grid
  • Receptor
  • Filament

Frage 22

Antworten
  • Collimator
  • Bucky
  • Grid
  • Receptor
  • Filament

Frage 23

Frage
What is the grid ratio?
Antworten
  • Relationship between the height of the lead strips and the width of the spaces between them
  • Relationship between the weight of the lead strips and the width of the spaces between them

Frage 24

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How are the strips placed in a non-focussed grid?
Antworten
  • Parallel
  • Angled - matches angles of the x-rays exiting the patient, must be used with the tube at a specific distance away
  • Moving - increases efficiency and hides any lines that may be caused by the grid material

Frage 25

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How are the strips placed in a focussed grid?
Antworten
  • Parallel
  • Angled - matches angles of the x-rays exiting the patient, must be used with the tube at a specific distance away
  • Moving - increases efficiency and hides any lines that may be caused by the grid material

Frage 26

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How are the strips placed in a reciprocating grid?
Antworten
  • Parallel
  • Angled - matches angles of the x-rays exiting the patient, must be used with the tube at a specific distance away
  • Moving - increases efficiency and hides any lines that may be caused by the grid material

Frage 27

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What are the correct facts regarding receptors?
Antworten
  • Device used to capture the remnant beam
  • Device used to capture the scatter beams
  • Can be a film or digital system

Frage 28

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What are correct facts regarding film receptors?
Antworten
  • A single piece of film is supported in a cassette
  • A film is typically one-sided
  • There is an intensifying screen on one side of the film
  • The film needs to be processed in a darkroom so the image becomes visible

Frage 29

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What are correct facts regarding a digital receptor?
Antworten
  • A single sided receptor array supported in a cassette
  • There is also a filament in the cassette
  • The image has already been processed electronically
  • The latent image is formed directly on the receptor, which reacts to the x-ray beam

Frage 30

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With either film or digital, you end up with an image which can be viewed on either a light box (film) or computer screen (digital)
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 31

Frage
What is the kVP (kilovolts peak)?
Antworten
  • Controls the penetrating power of the x-ray beam
  • Controls the number of electrons crossing from the cathode to the anode
  • The time that the electrons are allowed to cross the tube for

Frage 32

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What is the mA (milliamperes)?
Antworten
  • Controls the number of electrons crossing from the cathode to the anode
  • Controls the penetrating power of the x-ray beam
  • The time that the electrons are allowed to cross the tube for

Frage 33

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What are x-ray factors expressed in?
Antworten
  • kVp
  • mA
  • s

Frage 34

Frage
Where is the x-ray created?
Antworten
  • Anode
  • Cathode
  • Filament

Frage 35

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How fast does a rotating anode spin per minute?
Antworten
  • 3400 revolutions
  • 3000 revolutions
  • 3200 revolutions
  • 3600 revolutions

Frage 36

Frage
Why does the anode spin?
Antworten
  • Reduces wear
  • Spreads the load on the anode
  • Allows lower tube currents
  • Allow shorter times

Frage 37

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What facts are correct regarding Bremsstrahlung?
Antworten
  • The x-ray beam is heterogeneous
  • The energy of the Bremsstrahlung x-ray will vary depending on how far an electron penetrates a target atom
  • The energy of the Bremsstrahlung x-ray will vary depending on how quickly an electron penetrates a target atom
  • X-rays of a single energy will be produced
  • kVP controls the range of energies produced
  • mA controls the range of energies produced
  • Interactions in the outer part of the atom generate weaker x-rays, the inner part is stronger
  • Interactions in the outer part of the atom generate stronger x-rays, the inner part is weaker
  • X-ray Bremsstrahlung comprises a range of energies from an identifiable maximum to an indeterminate minimum

Frage 38

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How do you control Bremsstrahlung?
Antworten
  • kVp controls the maximum energy within the beam
  • kVp controls the minimum energy within the beam
  • mA and s control the number of photons of energy within the beam
  • mA and s control the penetration rate of photons within the beam

Frage 39

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What are the two major parts on the cathode side of the tube?
Antworten
  • Filament and focusing cup
  • Filament and bearings
  • Bearings and rotor
  • Rotor and focusing cup

Frage 40

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What does the filament release when it's heated?
Antworten
  • Cloud of electrons (thermionic emission)
  • Cloud of protons (thermionic emission)
  • Cloud of atoms (thermionic emission)

Frage 41

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Is the focusing cup positively or negatively charged?
Antworten
  • Positively
  • Negatively

Frage 42

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Why does the focusing cup condense the electron cloud?
Antworten
  • Encounters a smaller area of the target
  • Encounters a larger area of the target

Frage 43

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What directions are Bremsstrahlung radiation produced?
Antworten
  • All directions
  • Forwards
  • Backwards
  • Laterally

Frage 44

Frage
What is the only part of the beam required?
Antworten
  • Beam travelling towards the patient
  • Beam travelling away from the patient
  • Beam travelling upwards through the patient
  • Beam travelling downwards through the patient

Frage 45

Frage
Why is there an oil filled space between the housing and the tube?
Antworten
  • Absorbs the heat that is produced
  • Reduces the scatter
  • Decreases the amount of electron penetration
  • Decreases the number of electrons of energy in the beam

Frage 46

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What is the role of the collimator?
Antworten
  • Improves quality of the image
  • Limits the beam
  • Not a legal requirement
  • Desirable

Frage 47

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If the beam is restricted, is the scatter radiation increased or decreased?
Antworten
  • Increased
  • Decreased

Frage 48

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What are correct facts regarding scatter?
Antworten
  • Restricting the beam reduces scatter
  • Restricting the beam increases scatter
  • Reducing scatter radiation improves image quality
  • Reducing scatter radiation reduces image quality
  • Restricting the beam reduces the patient's radiation dose
  • Restricting the beam increases the patient's radiation dose

Frage 49

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What is scatter often referred to as?
Antworten
  • Compton scatter
  • Compton electron
  • Recoil electron

Frage 50

Frage
Where can the outer shell electron gain some energy from and what does it become?
Antworten
  • Photon - becomes recoil/Compton electron
  • Neutron - becomes recoil/Compton electron
  • Electron - becomes Compton scatter
  • Photon - becomes Compton scatter

Frage 51

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What happens to the x-ray photon when it collides with an outer shell electron?
Antworten
  • Retains the remainder energy, but changes course (scatters) in a random direction
  • Increases its energy, but changes course (scatters) in a random direction
  • Decreases its energy, but changes course (scatters) in a random direction

Frage 52

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Does the kVp value have a direct effect on scatter, regarding amount produced and direction of scatter?
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 53

Frage
Does a collimator compress and focus the x-ray beam?
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 54

Frage
A collimator works by 2 pairs of lead leaves which absorb or reflect the x-ray beam
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 55

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Does a low kVp increase or decrease the scatter formation?
Antworten
  • Decrease
  • Increase

Frage 56

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If there is less scatter, how does the image look?
Antworten
  • Less image
  • More image

Frage 57

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What is needed to to counteract the less image?
Antworten
  • More mA's
  • Less mA's

Frage 58

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Why can a high mA be bad for a patient?
Antworten
  • Higher patient dose
  • Produces more scatter
  • Decreases clarity of the image

Frage 59

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What does a high kVp affect?
Antworten
  • Contrast
  • Sharpness

Frage 60

Frage
What is good contrast?
Antworten
  • Black
  • White
  • Grey
  • Low kVp
  • High kVp

Frage 61

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What is optical density?
Antworten
  • Overall darkness of the image
  • Overall lightness of the image

Frage 62

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How do you maintain optical density?
Antworten
  • Balance of kVp and mA is needed
  • kVp controls penetration
  • mA controls the colour of the image

Frage 63

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What do you increase the kVp by to double the optical density?
Antworten
  • 10%
  • 15%
  • 20%
  • 5%

Frage 64

Frage
What do you increase the mA by to double the optical density?
Antworten
  • 100%
  • 80%
  • 120%
  • 90%

Frage 65

Frage
What are correct facts regarding the control panel?
Antworten
  • Allows you to set kVp, mA and s
  • Allows upright v recumbent grids to be selected
  • Allows exposure to be made
  • Allows AEC (Automatic Exposure Chamber) and exact chamber to be selected

Frage 66

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How many target sizes are there?
Antworten
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4

Frage 67

Frage
What size target is used for smaller exposures?
Antworten
  • Smaller target
  • Larger target

Frage 68

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What are correct facts regarding target size
Antworten
  • Appropriate target sizes are used to avoid overheating the target material
  • The target size affects the quality of the image
  • The smaller target produces a larger penumbra around the image - causing it to looked blurred
  • The larger target produces a larger penumbra around the image - causing it to looked blurred
  • The larger target is used for smaller exposures
  • There are commonly 5 targets in an x-ray tube

Frage 69

Frage
The penumbra increases as the subject-receptor distance decreases
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 70

Frage
The penumbra decreases as the target-subject distance increases
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 71

Frage
The distance between the target and the subject, and the subject and receptor will affect the image
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 72

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What is the subject-receptor distance also known as, and what size is desirable?
Antworten
  • Object-image distance (OID) - small
  • Object-image distance (OID) - large
  • Source-image distance (SID) - small
  • Source-image distance (SID) - large

Frage 73

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What benefits does a small OID give?
Antworten
  • Reduces magnification
  • Geometric unsharpness
  • Reduces penumbra effect
  • Lower energy x-ray photons to dissipate
  • Allows the beam to be more homogenous

Frage 74

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What distance is desirable for the Source-image distance (SID)?
Antworten
  • Long
  • Short

Frage 75

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What benefits are there with a long SID?
Antworten
  • Reduces penumbra effect
  • Allows the lower energy x-ray photons to dissipate
  • Makes the beam more homogenous
  • Reduces magnification
  • Geometric un-sharpness

Frage 76

Frage
Is distortion undesirable in an x-ray image?
Antworten
  • Yes
  • No

Frage 77

Frage
Why does distortion occur?
Antworten
  • When there is too much energy penetrating the patient
  • When the anatomy lies at an inappropriate angle to the receptor, or vice versa

Frage 78

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What factors make an x-ray optimal?
Antworten
  • Collimate the beam to the relevant anatomy
  • Select a large target size
  • Have a short OID
  • Have a long OID
  • Have a short SID
  • Have a long SID
  • Selecting kVp to allow adequate penetration
  • Selecting mA ensuring enough photons get through the subject
  • Consider anatomy to the receptor
  • Ensuring balance of kVp and mAs to a suitable level of contrast

Frage 79

Frage
How can the Bucky be placed?
Antworten
  • Vertically
  • Horizontally
  • Diagonally

Frage 80

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What facts are correct regarding the Bucky?
Antworten
  • Designed to hold a receptor
  • There is only one type of Bucky
  • It cannot be moved into various positions
  • It holds an anti-scatter grid
  • It holds the receptor close to the grid and the grid close to the protective front plate
  • It can contain automatic exposure chambers

Frage 81

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What is the role of an anti-scatter grid?
Antworten
  • To eliminate as much scatter as possible as it exits the patient and before it reaches the receptor
  • To eliminate as much scatter as possible as it enters the patient
  • To focus the scatter before it reaches the receptor
  • To decrease the amount of radiation to the patient

Frage 82

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What is the grid ratio?
Antworten
  • Height divided by the interspace thickness
  • Number of grid strips per centimetre

Frage 83

Frage
What is the grid frequency?
Antworten
  • Number of grid strips per centimetre
  • Height divided by the interspace thickness

Frage 84

Frage
What type of lines does a linear grid have?
Antworten
  • Parallel
  • Diagonal
  • Criss-cross

Frage 85

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Where is a linear grid most efficient?
Antworten
  • At the central section of the grid
  • At the outermost section of the grid
  • Over the whole grid

Frage 86

Frage
What is the cheapest and easiest grid to make?
Antworten
  • Linear/parallel grid
  • Focused
  • Crossed
  • Static
  • Moving/reciprocating

Frage 87

Frage
What type of grid has angled strips?
Antworten
  • Focused
  • Linear/parallel
  • Static
  • Crossed
  • Moving/reciprocating

Frage 88

Frage
Which portion of the grid matches the direction of the beam?
Antworten
  • Whole grid
  • Centre portion of the grid
  • Outermost portion of the grid

Frage 89

Frage
What is the aim of a reciprocating grid?
Antworten
  • Blur the shadows of the grid strips so they're not visible on the image
  • To decrease the amount of radiation
  • To improve the contrast of the image

Frage 90

Frage
What types of strips can a reciprocating grid have?
Antworten
  • Parallel
  • Focused
  • Crossed

Frage 91

Frage
Why are crossed grids commonly found in general radiography practice?
Antworten
  • They are extremely effective at scatter removal, as they're made up for 2 grids running at 90 degrees to each other
  • They are extremely effective at scatter removal, as they're made up for 4 grids running at 90 degrees to each other
  • They are the cheapest form of imaging
  • Difficult to use as the central part of the beam must be perpendicular and central to the grids

Frage 92

Frage
Why is an air gap beneficial instead of a grid?
Antworten
  • Reduces the dose
  • Decreases the time exposed to the radiation
  • The image becomes clearer

Frage 93

Frage
What does the cassette hold close together?
Antworten
  • Intensifying screens and film
  • Film and filament
  • Receptor and grid
  • Glass envelope and bearings

Frage 94

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What do the phosphors act as in the intensifying screens?
Antworten
  • Amplifiers - they convert the x-rays into visible light which then interacts with the film
  • Depressors - they convert the x-rays into visible light which then interacts with the film

Frage 95

Frage
What does the phosphor layer contain?
Antworten
  • Crystals - image obtained depends on the size of these crystals
  • Protons - image obtained depends on the amount of these protons

Frage 96

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What is spectral matching?
Antworten
  • The emulsion is set to match the colour of light being emitted by the intensifying screens
  • The base is lightly tinted (pale blue or grey) to match the colour of light being emitted by the intensifying screens
  • Silver halide crystals are active in the emulsion
  • The emulsions are covered by a fine, translucent protective layer

Frage 97

Frage
A digital receptor has intensifying screens or film and an area for patient information
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 98

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What facts are correct regarding digital receptors?
Antworten
  • Cassette is a rigid, light-tight and dust-proof support
  • There is an area for patient information
  • There is a single sided imaging plate
  • There is a double sided imaging plate
  • The latent image is still invisible and needs to be processed

Frage 99

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What is the order in an intensifying screen?
Antworten
  • 1) Protective coating 2) Phosphor (emulsion) layer 3) Reflective layer 4) Base
  • 1) Protective coating 2) Reflective layer 3) Phosphor (emulsion) layer 4) Base

Frage 100

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What is the base made of?
Antworten
  • Strong, flexible, chemically inert material (e.g. plastic)
  • Weak, flexible, chemically inert material (e.g. plastic)
  • Strong, solid, chemically inert material (e.g. plastic)
  • Weak, solid, chemically inert material (e.g. plastic)

Frage 101

Frage
The higher the speed, the more re-active the screen is
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 102

Frage
What layers does the x-ray beam pass through?
Antworten
  • Base
  • Reflective layer
  • Protective layer
  • Phosphor layer

Frage 103

Frage
Does the x-ray beam interact with the phosphor layer to emit light?
Antworten
  • Yes
  • No

Frage 104

Frage
Why do the phosphors have a high atomic number?
Antworten
  • So the x-ray absorption is high
  • So the x-ray absorption is low
  • So the light emitted from the x-ray beam is high
  • So the light emitted from the x-ray beam is low

Frage 105

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What is the x-ray conversion efficiency?
Antworten
  • Large amount of light per absorption of x-ray photons
  • Small amount of light per absorption of x-ray photons

Frage 106

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How much afterglow is optimal?
Antworten
  • Maximal
  • Minimal

Frage 107

Frage
Should the phosphors be affected by heat, humidity or any other environmental effects?
Antworten
  • Yes
  • No

Frage 108

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What do the emulsion layers of the intensifying screens contain that react to x-rays?
Antworten
  • Crystals
  • Electrons
  • Protons
  • Light waves

Frage 109

Frage
What size crystals produce finer, more contained light?
Antworten
  • Small
  • Medium
  • Large

Frage 110

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What needs to happen in screens with small crystals?
Antworten
  • More exposure to produce the same amount of image than screens with larger crystals - more dose
  • Less exposure to produce the same amount of image than screens with larger crystals - less dose

Frage 111

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Where are fine crystal screens most commonly used?
Antworten
  • Areas away from the torso
  • Lumbar spine
  • Pelvis
  • Thoracic spine

Frage 112

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What direction is light emitted from the phosphors?
Antworten
  • All directions
  • Diagonally
  • Vertically
  • Horizontally

Frage 113

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What is the role of the reflective layer?
Antworten
  • Redirects the light emitted from the phosphors, so as much light as possible is travelling towards the film
  • Redirects the scatter away from the receptor, so a minute amount of scatter is travelling towards the film

Frage 114

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What percentage of the image is formed by the direct interaction of x-rays with the film?
Antworten
  • 1%
  • 10%
  • 70%
  • 50%

Frage 115

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What is the role of the protective layer of the intensifying screen?
Antworten
  • Fine translucent layer to protect the phosphors from dust and abrasion
  • Thick translucent layer to protect the phosphors from dust and abrasion
  • Fine coloured layer to protect the phosphors from dust and abrasion

Frage 116

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What is the active ingredient in the emulsion of a film?
Antworten
  • Silver halide crystals
  • Gold halide crystals
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