Fluoroscopy New Update TEST Questions with
100% Correct Answers
What is fluoroscopy?
-dynamic images
-real time images
-use of contrast media
What is spot films?
- radiographic images taken during fluoro
-static image
What is angiography?
-fluoro of the vessels
Who invented fluoroscopy?
-Thomas Edison in 1896
Describe the first fluoro tube.
- light tight, hand held, metal cone
-cone bottom-fluorescent screen
-cone top-viewing window
Define fluorescence.
-visible light after stimuli (energy)
Who was the first radiation death?
, -Clarence Dally
-1904
Describe a conventional fluoroscopy tube.
-Tube attached to mobile carriage
-leaded glass (reduce radiologist exposure)
-used barium platinocyanide, cadmium tungstate, zinc-cadmium sulfide
-Roentgens plates were coated with platinocyanide
List some qualities of conventional fluoroscopy.
-image very dim
-dark adaptation required (15 min in dark for eyes to adjust)
-retina insensitive to long wavelength light
-high pt. and operator exposure
What is a Pedoscope?
-shoe fitting fluoro
-2 viewers
-exposure time-15sec
-phased out in 1950s
What is Image-Intensified fluoroscopy?
-replaced conventional fluoroscopy
-tube below, II (Image Intensifier on top)
-carriage tube can operate in both fluoroscopic and radiographic modes
100% Correct Answers
What is fluoroscopy?
-dynamic images
-real time images
-use of contrast media
What is spot films?
- radiographic images taken during fluoro
-static image
What is angiography?
-fluoro of the vessels
Who invented fluoroscopy?
-Thomas Edison in 1896
Describe the first fluoro tube.
- light tight, hand held, metal cone
-cone bottom-fluorescent screen
-cone top-viewing window
Define fluorescence.
-visible light after stimuli (energy)
Who was the first radiation death?
, -Clarence Dally
-1904
Describe a conventional fluoroscopy tube.
-Tube attached to mobile carriage
-leaded glass (reduce radiologist exposure)
-used barium platinocyanide, cadmium tungstate, zinc-cadmium sulfide
-Roentgens plates were coated with platinocyanide
List some qualities of conventional fluoroscopy.
-image very dim
-dark adaptation required (15 min in dark for eyes to adjust)
-retina insensitive to long wavelength light
-high pt. and operator exposure
What is a Pedoscope?
-shoe fitting fluoro
-2 viewers
-exposure time-15sec
-phased out in 1950s
What is Image-Intensified fluoroscopy?
-replaced conventional fluoroscopy
-tube below, II (Image Intensifier on top)
-carriage tube can operate in both fluoroscopic and radiographic modes
