RADIATION SAFETY PRACTICE TEST
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE
ANSWERS
Radiation safety officer - Answer-What does RSO stand for?
Illinois Emergency Management Agency - Answer-What does IEMA stand for?
As Low As Reasonably Achievable - Answer-What does ALARA stand for?
Amy Yarshen - Answer-Who is the COD Radiation Safety officer?
IEMA - Answer-regulatory agency that sets the standards of practice and regulates any
person and/or facility that deals with ionizing radiation
ALARA - Answer-Used in reference to keeping a person's exposure to ionizing radiation
as low as possible
Time, distance and shielding - Answer-What are the 3 primary rule of ALARA and
keeping the patient and worker to low doses of radiation?
-higher elevation
-food, air, water
-how you live: medical procedures, jet plane travel, tv
-how close you live to nuclear power plant
-sun exposure - Answer-What are 5 daily, environmental and occupational exposures to
radiation?
-bone marrow
-sperm
-ova
-germ cells - Answer-What are the 4 most radiosensitive cells?
-cns
-muscles
-skin - Answer-What are the 3 most radio resistant cells?
Law of Bergonie and Tribondeau - Answer--stem cells are more radiosensitive than
mature cells
-the more mature a cell is, the more radio resistant it is
Radiosensitive - Answer-The higher metabolic activity of a cell, the more ________ it is.
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE
ANSWERS
Radiation safety officer - Answer-What does RSO stand for?
Illinois Emergency Management Agency - Answer-What does IEMA stand for?
As Low As Reasonably Achievable - Answer-What does ALARA stand for?
Amy Yarshen - Answer-Who is the COD Radiation Safety officer?
IEMA - Answer-regulatory agency that sets the standards of practice and regulates any
person and/or facility that deals with ionizing radiation
ALARA - Answer-Used in reference to keeping a person's exposure to ionizing radiation
as low as possible
Time, distance and shielding - Answer-What are the 3 primary rule of ALARA and
keeping the patient and worker to low doses of radiation?
-higher elevation
-food, air, water
-how you live: medical procedures, jet plane travel, tv
-how close you live to nuclear power plant
-sun exposure - Answer-What are 5 daily, environmental and occupational exposures to
radiation?
-bone marrow
-sperm
-ova
-germ cells - Answer-What are the 4 most radiosensitive cells?
-cns
-muscles
-skin - Answer-What are the 3 most radio resistant cells?
Law of Bergonie and Tribondeau - Answer--stem cells are more radiosensitive than
mature cells
-the more mature a cell is, the more radio resistant it is
Radiosensitive - Answer-The higher metabolic activity of a cell, the more ________ it is.