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Chapter 05: Film-Screen Imaging Chapter
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06:Exposure Technique Factors Chapter
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07: Scatter Control
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Chapter08:ExposureTechniqueSelection Chapter gg
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Chapter01:RadiationandItsDiscovery
Fauber:RadiographicImagingandExposure,6thEdition i
MULTIPLECHOICE
1. WhenwereX-rays discovered?
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b. November8, 1895 gg
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d. August 15, 1902 gg gg
CORRECT ANSWER: B
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X-rays werediscovered byWilhelm Conrad Roentgen on November8, 1895. gg g gg gg gg gg gg
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2. Whattypeof tubewas Roentgen working with inhis lab when X-rays were discovered?
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a. Crookes tube gg
b. Fluorescent tube i
c. High-vacuum tube ii
d. Wurzburgtube
CORRECT ANSWER: A
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Roentgen was working with alow-vacuum tube knownas aCrookes tube.
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3. Which of the following terms could be defined as the instantaneous production of light only
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during an interaction between a type of energy and some element or compound?
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a. Phosphorescence
b. Afterglow
c. Glowing
d. Fluorescence
CORRECT ANSWER: D ii ii
Fluorescenceis theinstantaneous emission of light from amaterial duetotheinteraction with some
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type of energy.
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4. Barium platinocyanide was the:
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a. typeofdark paper Roentgen used to darken his laboratory.
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b. material Roentgen usedto producethe first radiographofhis wife’s hand.
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c. metal used to producethelow-vacuum tube.
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d. fluorescent material that glowed whenthetubewasenergized.
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CORRECT ANSWER: D ii ii
Apieceofpaper coated with barium platinocyanideglowed each timeRoentgen energized his tube.
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, 5. Thefirst radiograph produced byRoentgen, of his wife’shand, required an exposuretimeof:
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a. 15 s. gg
b. 150 s. gg
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ANS: g g C
It took a15-min exposuretimeto producethe first radiograph.
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6. Theletter x in x-ray is thesymbol for:
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a. electricity.
b. the unknown. gg
c. penetrating.
d. discovery.
ANS: g g B
Theletter x represents the mathematical symbol of the unknown.
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7. Thefirst Nobel Prizefor physics was received in 1901 by:
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a. Marie Curie. gg
b. WilliamCrookes. g
c. Wilhelm Roentgen. gg
d. Albert Einstein. gg
ANS: g g C
Wilhelm Roentgen received thefirst Nobel Prize forphysics in 1901.
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8. X-rays were at onetime called: gg gg gg
a. Becquerelrays.
b. Roentgenrays.
c. Z-rays.
d. noneof the above. gg gg
ANS: g g B
X-rays were at onetimecalled Roentgen rays. g gg gg gg
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9. Erythema, an earlysign ofbiologic damagedueto x-rayexposure, is:
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a. reddening oftheskin. gg
b. a malignant tumor.
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c. achromosomal change. gg
d. oneofthemost serious effects ofx-ray exposure. gg gg gg gg
ANS: g g A