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Fauber Chapter 7 Questions with
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Scatter radiation is detrimental to image quality because

Ans: It adds unwanted exposire (fog) without adding any
patient information



⬆️ scatter:

Ans: ⬇️ Radiographic contrast, ⬆️ fog



Increase in the volume of tissue results in

Ans: Increased scatter production



Higher kVp increases:

Ans: the energy of scatter radiation exiting the patient



Increase x-ray field size results in

Ans: Increased volume of tissue



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Beam restricting devices

Ans: Decrease the x-ray beam field size and the amount
of tissue irradiated, reducing the amount of scatter
radiation produced



Grids

Ans: Used to improve radiographic image quality by
absorbing scatter radiation that exits the patient,
reducing the amount of scatter that reaches the IR



A beam restricting device changes

Ans: shape and size of the primary beam



Increasing collimation:

Ans: decreasing the field size



To maintain exposure to the IR when collimating

Ans: mAs must be increased




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