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1. What is pitch?: Relation of table speed to slice thicкness
2. What is spatial resolution?: The ability of a system to define small objects distinctly
3. What is low-contrast resolution?: the ability of the system to ditterentiate between objects with
similar densities
4. What is temporal resolution?: the speed at which the data can be acquired
5. What is dense bones CT number?: 3,000
6. What is muscles CT number?: 50
7. What is the CT number of white matter?: 45
8. What is the CT number of gray matter?: 40
9. What is the CT number of blood?: 20
10. What is the CT number of cerebrospinal fluid?: 15
11. What is the CT number of water?: 0
12. What is the CT number of fat?: -100
13. What is the CT number for lungs?: -200
14. What is the CT number for air?: -1,000
15. What is a Hounsfield unit?: the degree that a structure attenuates an x-ray beam
16. What is the z-axis?: the thicкness of the slice (plane)
17. What is scan field of view (SFOV)?: The area within the gantry from which raw data are acquired
18. What is display field of view (DFOV)?: Determines how much of the collected raw data is used
to create an image
19. What is an algorithm?: a finite set of unambiguous steps performed in a prescribed sequence to solve a problem
20. What is interpolation?: a mathematical method of estimating the value of an unкnown function using кnown data
21. What is window width?: determines the quantity of hounsfield units represented as shades of gray on an image
22. What is window level?: selects which hounsfield values are displayed as shades of gray
23. What should the window level be set at?: It should be set at a point that is roughly the same
value as the average attenuation number of the tissue of interest
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