SOLUTIONS
type of energy used to produce X-rays - Precise Answer
✔✔electromagnetic
what happens inside the cassette during exposure? - Precise
Answer ✔✔intensifying stream
X-rays that are bouncing off of things (wall, fat, organs) which
can distort the image - Precise Answer ✔✔scatter
-latent (invisible)
-manifest - Precise Answer ✔✔two images on film
Lower or Raise KVP with a bad image? - Precise Answer
✔✔Raise KVP
closes the field of view/ controls size of film - Precise Answer
✔✔collimator
stops X-rays at different levels - Precise Answer ✔✔grid
, women can be X-rayed within 10 days of their last day of
menstruation - Precise Answer ✔✔10 day rule
stops X-rays from going through the wall - Precise Answer
✔✔lead
positive side of X-ray tube. Will accept - Precise Answer
✔✔anode
major and minor controls- control speed; quality= Kvp
low = high contrast
high = low contrast - Precise Answer ✔✔kVp
controls quantity - Precise Answer ✔✔mA
how much time between the cathode and the anode - Precise
Answer ✔✔exposure time
brighter areas on the film - Precise Answer ✔✔radiopacity