Medical Health Physics Exam 1 Review LC Questions With Correct Answers.

Medical Health Physics Exam 1
Review LC Questions With Correct
Answers


List the Eras in order - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Pioneer Era, Dormant Era,
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Era of Progress
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Pioneer Era (years) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1895-1905
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Dormant Era (years) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1905-1925
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Era of Progress (years) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1925-1945
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What happened during the Pioneer Era? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Recognition of somatic effects only
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What happened during the Dormant Era? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Little
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progress in radiation protection
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What happened during the Era of Progress? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Recognition of genetic effects | | |

, Law of Bernie & Tribundeau - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Cells are more
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sensitive if they are: undifferentiated, have long dividing futures, and
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are rapidly dividing
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Late effects are much more sensitive to what? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Changes in fractionation | |




Early effects happen from what? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Large number
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of rapidly dividing cells dying
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Late effects can take how long to appear - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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months to years | |




Late effects occur predominantly in what kind of tissues? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Slowly proliferating |




Examples of what structures have late effects - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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lung, kidney, heart, liver, and central nervous system
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Acute damage repairs.... - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-rapidly - rapid
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proliferation of stem cells | | |