Complete Test Bank
Radiographic Imaging and Exposure 6th Edition
by Terri L. Fauber
, Table of Contents
Chapter 01: Radiation and Its Discovery
Chapter 02: The X-ray Beam
Chapter 03: Image Formation and Radiographic Quality
Chapter 04: Digital Imaging
Chapter 05: Film-Screen Imaging
Chapter 06: Exposure Technique Factors
Chapter 07: Scatter Control
Chapter 08: Exposure Technique Selection
Chapter 09: Image Evaluation
Chapter 10: Dynamic Imaging: Fluoroscopy
, Radiographic Imaging and Exposure 6th Edition Fauber
Test Bank
Chapter 01: Radiation and Its Discovery
Fauber: Radiographic Imaging and Exposure, 6th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. When were X-rays discovered?
a. October 8, 1985
b. November 8, 1895
c. January 23, 1896
d. August 15, 1902
SOLUTION: B
X-rays were discovered by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen on November 8, 1895.
REF:p.1
2. What type of tube was Roentgen working with in his lab when X-rays were discovered?
a. Crookes tube
b. Fluorescent tube
c. High-vacuum tube
d. Wurzburg tube
SOLUTION: A
Roentgen was working with a low-vacuum tube known as a Crookes tube.
REF:p.2
3. Which of the following terms could be defined as the instantaneous production of light only
during an interaction between a type of energy and some element or compound?
a. Phosphorescence
b. Afterglow
c. Glowing
d. Fluorescence
SOLUTION: D
Fluorescence is the instantaneous emission of light from a material due to the interaction with
some type of energy.
REF:p.2
4. Barium platinocyanide was the:
a. type of dark paper Roentgen used to darken his laboratory.
b. material Roentgen used to produce the first radiograph of his wife’s hand.
c. metal used to produce the low-vacuum tube.
d. fluorescent material that glowed when the tube was energized.
SOLUTION: D
A piece of paper coated with barium platinocyanide glowed each time Roentgen energized his
tube.
REF:p.2
, 5. the first radiograph produced by roentgen, of his wife’s hand, required an exposure time of:
a. 15 s.
b. 150 s.
c. 15 min.
d. 150 min.
ANS: c
it took a 15-min exposure time to produce the first radiograph.
ref:p.3
6. the letter x in x-ray is the symbol for:
a. electricity.
b. the unknown.
c. penetrating.
d. discovery.
ANS: b
the letter x represents the mathematical symbol of the unknown.
ref:p.3
7. the first nobel prize for physics was received in 1901 by:
a. marie curie.
b. william crookes.
c. wilhelm roentgen.
d. albert einstein.
SOL c
UTI
wilhelm roentgen received the first nobel prize for physics in 1901.
ON:
ref:p.4
8. x-rays were at one time called:
a. becquerel rays.
b. roentgen rays.
c. z-rays.
d. none of the above.
ANS: b
x-rays were at one time called roentgen rays.
ref:p.4
9. erythema, an early sign of biologic damage due to x-ray exposure, is:
a. reddening of the skin.
b. a malignant tumor.
c. a chromosomal change.
d. one of the most serious effects of x-ray exposure.
ANS: a
Radiographic Imaging and Exposure 6th Edition
by Terri L. Fauber
, Table of Contents
Chapter 01: Radiation and Its Discovery
Chapter 02: The X-ray Beam
Chapter 03: Image Formation and Radiographic Quality
Chapter 04: Digital Imaging
Chapter 05: Film-Screen Imaging
Chapter 06: Exposure Technique Factors
Chapter 07: Scatter Control
Chapter 08: Exposure Technique Selection
Chapter 09: Image Evaluation
Chapter 10: Dynamic Imaging: Fluoroscopy
, Radiographic Imaging and Exposure 6th Edition Fauber
Test Bank
Chapter 01: Radiation and Its Discovery
Fauber: Radiographic Imaging and Exposure, 6th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. When were X-rays discovered?
a. October 8, 1985
b. November 8, 1895
c. January 23, 1896
d. August 15, 1902
SOLUTION: B
X-rays were discovered by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen on November 8, 1895.
REF:p.1
2. What type of tube was Roentgen working with in his lab when X-rays were discovered?
a. Crookes tube
b. Fluorescent tube
c. High-vacuum tube
d. Wurzburg tube
SOLUTION: A
Roentgen was working with a low-vacuum tube known as a Crookes tube.
REF:p.2
3. Which of the following terms could be defined as the instantaneous production of light only
during an interaction between a type of energy and some element or compound?
a. Phosphorescence
b. Afterglow
c. Glowing
d. Fluorescence
SOLUTION: D
Fluorescence is the instantaneous emission of light from a material due to the interaction with
some type of energy.
REF:p.2
4. Barium platinocyanide was the:
a. type of dark paper Roentgen used to darken his laboratory.
b. material Roentgen used to produce the first radiograph of his wife’s hand.
c. metal used to produce the low-vacuum tube.
d. fluorescent material that glowed when the tube was energized.
SOLUTION: D
A piece of paper coated with barium platinocyanide glowed each time Roentgen energized his
tube.
REF:p.2
, 5. the first radiograph produced by roentgen, of his wife’s hand, required an exposure time of:
a. 15 s.
b. 150 s.
c. 15 min.
d. 150 min.
ANS: c
it took a 15-min exposure time to produce the first radiograph.
ref:p.3
6. the letter x in x-ray is the symbol for:
a. electricity.
b. the unknown.
c. penetrating.
d. discovery.
ANS: b
the letter x represents the mathematical symbol of the unknown.
ref:p.3
7. the first nobel prize for physics was received in 1901 by:
a. marie curie.
b. william crookes.
c. wilhelm roentgen.
d. albert einstein.
SOL c
UTI
wilhelm roentgen received the first nobel prize for physics in 1901.
ON:
ref:p.4
8. x-rays were at one time called:
a. becquerel rays.
b. roentgen rays.
c. z-rays.
d. none of the above.
ANS: b
x-rays were at one time called roentgen rays.
ref:p.4
9. erythema, an early sign of biologic damage due to x-ray exposure, is:
a. reddening of the skin.
b. a malignant tumor.
c. a chromosomal change.
d. one of the most serious effects of x-ray exposure.
ANS: a
