SCDA Radiation Safety Exam Questions With
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Who discovered the X-ray? - Answer✔Wilhelm Rontgen
What can X-rays identify? - Answer✔Decay damage, change in bone patterns, impacted teeth,
cysts, and tumors
X rays are a form of what? - Answer✔Ionizing radiation
We can't see or feel this energy but as it moves through the body, it disrupts atoms in its path,
causing them to separate into ions - Answer✔Ionizing Radiation
Too much ionization can cause what? - Answer✔Sickness, cancer, birth defects, and even
death.
T or F: Radiation damage happens immediately. - Answer✔FALSE. Radiation damage is
cumulative.
T or F: Any amount of radiation may produce some damage in a person's body - Answer✔TRUE
T or F: Long term effects of radiation may take days to develop - Answer✔FALSE. Long term
effects take years to develop.
How much radiation should a person limit themselves to? - Answer✔Maximum Permissable
Dose (MPD guidelines) for general populaion, radiation workers, and pregnant women
Fetal cells are more susceptible to harm during which trimester? - Answer✔First trimester
It is the __________________'s responsibility to weigh out the risks to make sure the
radiograph is more important than the harm that they would get - Answer✔Doctor's
responsibility
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