Rad110- Patient Care Test 1

Create an image of a radiography room with an x-ray machine, a medical practitioner explaining a procedure to a patient, with radiographic images displayed in the background.

Radiography Patient Care Quiz

Test your knowledge on the principles of radiography and patient care with this comprehensive quiz. Designed for students and professionals in the field, this quiz includes a variety of questions covering fundamental concepts and historical milestones in radiology.

65 carefully crafted questions
Multiple choice and open-ended formats
Focus on patient care and radiographic principles

65 Questions16 MinutesCreated by ExploringLight527

Radiographs assist in what?

What are the factors of image quality?

Which image quality factor deals with the degree of film blackening?

How do you change the density of a film?

What refers to the difference in density or blackness of any two areas on a radiograph?

What does kVp stand for?

What is the primary controlling factor for contrast?

What controls the quality or penetrating ability (energy) of the x ray beam?

What does more kVp produce?

Detail refers to the sharpness of structures on a radiograph.

True

False

What are the factors of magnification?

Since you can't stop some organs from moving what should you do to reduce motion while taking an x-ray?

What does IR stand for?

What are the two radiation protection effect types?

What are somatic effects?

What are genetic effects?

What does ALARA stand for?

What is attenuation?

What happens when you detent the x ray tube?

What is the focal spot?

Explain latent image.

Remnant radiation is...

Radiation which tends to fog the image

Radiation coming directly from tube

Radiation which is absorbed into the grid

Radiation left after attenuation to create image

The hot cathode is the first device that produced x rays

True

False

What is the birthday of x ray?

What was the first anatomic radiograph?

What happened in February 1896?

Who were the first radiographers?

Radiologists who were familiar with the opoeration of the crooks tube

Chemists who were familiar with the opoeration of the crooks tube

Physicists who were familiar with the opoeration of the crooks tube

Physicists assistants who were familiar with the opoeration of the crooks tube

What does iodine do to your body?

Vaccum, electron source, target, and high potential difference are all factors of x ray production.

True

False

Select all that are characteristics of radiation

Travels in straight lines at the speed of sound

Affects photographic emulsions

Affects biological tissues

Can be focused or refracted

Cannot be detected by human senses

What is cathode also known as?

What is the anode also known as?

What are the two types of x ray tube support?

What does collimation do?

Moves x ray tube vertically

Moves x ray tube horizontally

Angles x ray tube

Changes field size

A grid is a

Device used to reduce scatter radiation on image quality

Tray into which the IR is placed

Form of shielding for patients

What does AEC stand for?

What do EI numbers tell us?

What does PACS stand for?

What is kVp and what does it stand for?

Select all that are true about technique charts

They only have to be in the office of the radiology department

They provide recomended prime exposure factors

They provide patient radiographic positions

They shold be near the control panel

Cassettes are lined by intensifying screens on both sides

True

False

Intensifying screens greatly increase patient dose

True

False

What is the expiration on film?

4 months

8 months

12 months

16 months

What are the two forms of filmless radiography?

During your critique of a comp, you use the terms "high kVp, low contrast, long scale, wide latitude" when the kVp is what?

During your critique of a comp, you use the terms "low kVp, high contrast, short scale, narrow latitude" when the kVp is what?

Which are the traditional units?

R, rad, rem

C/kg, Gy, Sv

What does OSL stand for?

Radiation absorbed dose (rad) is used to measure what?

Radiation exposed to the technologist

Radiation intensity in air

Radiation exposed to the patient

Sieverts (Sv) measures what?

Radiation exposed to the technologist

Radiation exposed to the patient

Radiation intensity in air

Roentgen (R) measures what?

Radiation exposed to the technologist

Radiation intensity in air

Radiation exposed to the patient

What are the four characteristics that radiation exposure depends on?

Nonstochastic effects are what?

Effects that occur only after a certain amount of exposure has been recieved

Effects that dont have a declared start time

What are the principal methods of protection?

Which of these are true about when gonad shielding is necessary?

When patient is of reproductive age or older

When gonads are in primary radiation field

When shield will not interfere with examination

When is the greatest risk to the fetus for radiation exposure?

First trimester

Second Trimester

Third Trimester

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