Chapter 1 Questions Flashcards
A photographic image produced on film by the passage of x-rays through teeth and related structures?
Dental radiograph
A beam of energy that has the power to penetrate substances and record image shadows on photographic film?
x-ray
A form of energy carried by waves or a stream of particles?
radiation
Any person who positions, exposes, and processes x-ray image receptors?
Dental radiographer
The production of radiographs by the exposure of image receptors to x-rays?
radiography
A high-energy radiation produced by the collision of a beam of electrons with a metal target in an x-ray tube?
x-radiation
The science or study of radiation as used in medicine?
Radiology
The production of radiographs of the teeth and adjacent structures by the exposure of image receptors to x-rays?
Dental radiography
A two-dimensional representation of a three-dimensional object?
radiograph
Used paralleling technique in practical dental radiography?
Franklin W. McCormack
Discovered x-rays?
Roentgen
developed first x-ray tube?
W.D. Coolidge
Introduced bisecting technique?
W.A. Price
Exposed first dental radiograph?
O. Walkhoff
Wrote first paper on the danger of x-radiation?
W.H. Rollins
Exposed first dental radiograph in US (skull)
W.J. Morton
Introduced long-cone paralleling technique?
F.G. Fitzgerald
Wrote first dental text; introduced bite-wing technique?
H.R. Raper
Exposed first dental radiograph in US (living patient)?
C.E. Kells
