PACS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔All of the following are DICOM commands except:
a. query
b. retrieve
c. get worklist
d. window level
e. DICOM print - ✔✔window level
✔✔The extensive, detailed information stored "behind" every image is its:
a. metadata
b. data base
c. URL (uniform resource locator)
d. protocol
e. worklist - ✔✔metadata
✔✔Key items of interest to caregivers are made easily accessible at the touch of a
button while
The image is displayed, as a DICOM:
a. query
b. get-list
c. footnote
d. menu
e. header - ✔✔header
✔✔Each line of information in the metadata begins with a DICOM _______ number:
a. tag ID
b. accession
c. patient ID
d. procedure - ✔✔tag ID
✔✔For internet access, confidentiality must be protected with __________ software:
a. applications
b. systems
, c. encryption
d. compression
e. rescaling - ✔✔encryption
✔✔Lossless compression ratios used for medical diagnosis are defined as ratios:
a. less than 8:1
b. more than 8:1
c. less than 10:1
d. more than 10:1 - ✔✔less than 8:1
✔✔For CR, DR, CT, MRI, NM and US units, images are usually erased ______ after
acquisition:
a. 8 hours
b. 24 hours
c. 16 hours
d. 3 days
e. 5 days - ✔✔24 hours
✔✔Images are usually erased from storage after 5 days for:
a. radiologists' workstations
b. CR and DR units
c. MRI and CT units
d. the PAC system
e. ER workstations - ✔✔radiologists' workstations
✔✔Within a PACS server, storage using jukeboxes in a separate location would be
classified as
_________ storage:
a. on-line
b. archive
c. lossless
d. lossy
e. temporary - ✔✔archive
✔✔The ability of a PAC system to automatically search the HIS and RIS for previous
images
and records for patients scheduled the following day is known as:
a. retrieve study
b. archiving
c. get-worklist
d. prefetching - ✔✔prefetching
✔✔To preserve image quality and manipulation features when images are sent to
clinical sites,
DICOM _______ should be included on CDs or DVDs:
✔✔All of the following are DICOM commands except:
a. query
b. retrieve
c. get worklist
d. window level
e. DICOM print - ✔✔window level
✔✔The extensive, detailed information stored "behind" every image is its:
a. metadata
b. data base
c. URL (uniform resource locator)
d. protocol
e. worklist - ✔✔metadata
✔✔Key items of interest to caregivers are made easily accessible at the touch of a
button while
The image is displayed, as a DICOM:
a. query
b. get-list
c. footnote
d. menu
e. header - ✔✔header
✔✔Each line of information in the metadata begins with a DICOM _______ number:
a. tag ID
b. accession
c. patient ID
d. procedure - ✔✔tag ID
✔✔For internet access, confidentiality must be protected with __________ software:
a. applications
b. systems
, c. encryption
d. compression
e. rescaling - ✔✔encryption
✔✔Lossless compression ratios used for medical diagnosis are defined as ratios:
a. less than 8:1
b. more than 8:1
c. less than 10:1
d. more than 10:1 - ✔✔less than 8:1
✔✔For CR, DR, CT, MRI, NM and US units, images are usually erased ______ after
acquisition:
a. 8 hours
b. 24 hours
c. 16 hours
d. 3 days
e. 5 days - ✔✔24 hours
✔✔Images are usually erased from storage after 5 days for:
a. radiologists' workstations
b. CR and DR units
c. MRI and CT units
d. the PAC system
e. ER workstations - ✔✔radiologists' workstations
✔✔Within a PACS server, storage using jukeboxes in a separate location would be
classified as
_________ storage:
a. on-line
b. archive
c. lossless
d. lossy
e. temporary - ✔✔archive
✔✔The ability of a PAC system to automatically search the HIS and RIS for previous
images
and records for patients scheduled the following day is known as:
a. retrieve study
b. archiving
c. get-worklist
d. prefetching - ✔✔prefetching
✔✔To preserve image quality and manipulation features when images are sent to
clinical sites,
DICOM _______ should be included on CDs or DVDs:
