Component parts of X-ray Machine

Question 1

What is the tube-head?

Answer 1

Is a tightly sealed, heavy metal housing that contains the x-ray tube that produces dental x-rays.

Question 2

What is the Metal housing?

Answer 2

Surrounds the x-ray tube, filled with oil, and protects the x-ray tube and grounds the high voltage components.

Question 3

What is the Insulating oil?

Answer 3

Prevents overheating by absorbing the heat created by the production of x-rays.

Question 4

What is the tubehead seal?

Answer 4

Or the aluminum or leaded-glass covering of the tubehead that permits the exit of x-rays from the tubehead. It seals the oil in the tubehead and acts as a filter to the x-ray beam.

Question 5

What is the X-ray tube?

Answer 5

Or the heart of the x-ray generating system.

Question 6

What is the transformer?

Answer 6

A device that alters the voltage of incoming electricity.

Question 7

What is an aluminum disks?

Answer 7

Sheets of 0.5mm-thick aluminum placed in the path of the x-ray beam- filter out the non-penetrating, longer wavelength x-rays.

Question 8

What is the lead collimator?

Answer 8

Or a lead plate with a central hole that fits directly over the opening of the metal housing, where the x-rays exit restricts the size of the x-ray beam.

Question 9

What is the PID?

Answer 9

Or open-ended, lead-lined cylinder that extends from the opening of the metal housing of the tubehead- aims and shapes the x-ray beam.