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29 Cards in this Set
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What protects the radiographer? |
Time, Distance, Sheilding |
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Signs of acute radiation. |
Hemorrhaging, hair loss, nausea |
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What is the intensity of x-ray beams? |
Exposure time, settings KvP and MvP |
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The majority of the x-rays produced are formed by what? |
Bremsstrahlung radiation |
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What type of image use ionizing? |
Panoramic, computed tomography, and tomography |
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What is not included for the principles of shadow casting? |
The film should not be perpendicular |
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What aren't the assistant duties? |
inspections and maintenance |
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What is shadow casting known as? |
Geometric factors |
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What is radiation injury? |
A dose may produce fewer biological set if the cells have a chance to recover, the greater the dose the higher an event could occur. |
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What must be present when infection is to occur? |
Pathogen, host, way to enter, disease causing microorganism. |
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Automatic processor? |
Rollers purpose to squeeze off film. |
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The manual film processing includes: |
a holder to transport the film from one solution to the next, temperature of solutions. |
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What doesn't disinfecting destroy? |
Spoors |
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X-rays are: |
Invisible, able to travel at the speed of light, and not made of mass. |
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The compton effect: |
Causes x-rays to be scattered in all different directions. |
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Penumbra is |
The fuzzy unsharp image and is reduced by a small focal spot. |
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T/F the film should be in close contact with the intensifying screen. |
True |
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T/F Excessive vertical angulation when using the bisecting technique with elongated the image |
False |
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What size are periapical x-rays |
1 or 2 |
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Hard radiation is |
When radiation is said to have great penetrating power |
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Velocity |
The speed of the wave |
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Amperage |
The measurement of the electrons moving through a wire conductor. |
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The tube head is |
insulated |
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T/F radiation can change genetics |
True |
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Latent image |
invisible image on the film |
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Lead foil |
Is placed in the film packet to aborb radiation |
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What solution stops development |
fixer |
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The units we can use on the arm head is |
DEGREES |
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Self determination |
the legal rights of patients for healthcare. |
