Chapter 8

Question 1

X-ray production originate from

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electron cloud

Question 2

Incoming electrons from the cathode =

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incident electrons

Question 3

Travel from thermionic cloud around filament to target of anode at distance of

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~2cm

Question 4

Range from nearly _ speed of

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½ speed of light to the speed of light

Question 5

3 Target Interactions

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Bremsstrahlung interactions
• Characteristic interactions
___

Question 6

Electron Interaction with Target Atoms produce

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X-RAYS by 2 processes

Bremsstrahlung interactions
• Characteristic interactions

Question 7

German word for “braking or slowing”; also referred to as

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Brems

Question 8

What interactions occur when an incident electron passes through orbital shells and approaches the nucleus of the Tungsten atom.

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Brems

Question 9

What gets close to the nucleus because of the power of attraction.

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Incident electron

Question 10

Electron cannot penetrate but the force field causes it to brake (slow down) this change in energy is emitted as an

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x-ray photon.

Question 11

Bremsstrahlung Interaction- list 4 things about it

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• Incident electron
• Passes by nucleus
• Changes direction
• Energy released as a photon

Question 12

Within diagnostic range, most photons are produced by

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Brems target interactions.

Question 13

Photon energy dependent on

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how close electron comes to nucleus and the rate of deceleration.

Question 14

Between 80-100 kVp, about 80-90% of the primary beam is produced by

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Brems

Question 15

Most of the useful beam is of

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Brems origin.

Question 16

What occur when an incident electron interacts with an inner-shell electron, the incident electron will continue but in another direction.

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Characteristic Interactions

Question 17

An electron from another shell will immediately drop into the

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vacant hole.

Question 18

This dropping of an electron from an outer higher energy into an inner low energy state results in the emission of an

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x-ray photon.

Question 19

When outer-shell electrons fill inner-shell vacancies what occurs

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a characteristic cascade occurs

Question 20

This produces several x-ray photons at different energies from each atom.

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Characteristic Interactions

Question 21

Only incident electrons which drop into the __ will produce characteristic photons within diagnostic x-ray range. (characteristic peak)

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K-shell

Question 22

Photons from other shells (L,M,N, etc.) have energies that are too low to be significant in diagnostic radiology. (this is what __ is for)

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filtration

Question 23

kVp must be above __ for characteristic photons to contribute to a diagnostic image, this is due to the binding energy of Tungsten.

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70

Question 24

Between 80-100 kVp, about 10-20% of the primary x-ray beam is produced by.

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characteristic interactions

Question 25

Which spectrum has Continuous emissions wide variety of energy levels.

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Brems

Question 26

What filters low x-ray energies out of the beam (area to far left of curve)

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Filtration eliminates

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What spectrum discrete emissions of specific energy levels.

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Characteristic Spectrum

Question 28

Factors that affect the emission
spectrum.

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mA
kVp
Filter

Question 29

For mA the larger the area under the curve, the

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higher the x-ray quantity

Question 30

For kVp The farther the right, the

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higher the quality (energy) of the x-ray beam and the greater amplitude.

Question 31

Adding filtration results in reduced quantity but

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increased quality of the beam. (decreases amount of low energy x-rays)

Question 32

Target Material
Higher Z#, increased what and shifts how

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amplitude and shift to the right of the curve.

Question 33

More efficient generators create

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higher amplitude

Question 34

Being human-made is the primary difference between

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X-rays and gamma rays

Question 35

What is the products of nuclear radioactive decay

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Gamma rays

Question 36

What is the distance that electrons that form the thermionic cloud around the filament arrive at the anode target travel

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2 cm

Question 37

The electrons were accelerated from zero to

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Half the speed of light in about 2 cm

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Incoming electrons are called

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Incident electrons

The ones that travel at the speed of light

Question 39

When incident electrons strike the target, they transfer their tremendous kinetic energy to the atoms of the target material and this interactions produces

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Cray photons

Question 40

The greater the mass or speed of the incident electrons, the greater

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The quality (energy) and quantity (number) of photons produced

Question 41

All target interactions occur within

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.25-.5 mm of the surface of the target

Question 42

A these are two types of target interactions that can produce diagnostic range X-ray photons

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Bremsstrahlung and characteristic