Compre Possible Questions Flashcards
- If the total exposure allowed/ day
Allowed= 0.2Sv
Allowed/hr = 8hrs/day
0.025mSv
=0.2/8
- Dose required permanent sterility for female
500rad
Leading international organization
ICRP
Dose received by radiation workers except:
coulomb/kg
A patient exposed to pelvis examination
2rad- 2 x a (alpha)
2 x 20= 40mSv/rem
Dose limit for patient
D=K/kg ; D= e/m
Calculation for kerma involves the ff:
energy fluence, energy, energy mass 12.3
For general leakage radiation allowed at 1m
100mR/h
Ff. devices work under principle of luminescence-
TLD & OSL
- Added to the filling of Geiger-Muller agent
quenching agent; xenon*if common ang question
- During fluoroscopy the TLD is placed at-
collar, above level apron
- Amount of scattered radiation directly proportional except
collimation
- During pregnancy, required # of monitors-
2; 1 collar, 1 fetus
- Film badge material
aluminum & copper
- As a useful, most common used thickness have approx.
0.5mm
- TLD filter
aluminum & copper
- Most commonly used OSL crystal
aluminum oxide
- Film badge measures radiation dose except
alpha
- Level collar, outside lead apron
participant
- Where film badge is submitted-
PNRI
- When a radtech changes employment, what happens to his/her exposure history-
transfer; B
- Which of the ff. has highest effective dose-
barium enema
- A general public; infrequent
5mSv
- Ff. monitor provide permanent record-
film badge
- NRCP recommend a distance of __ to stand
2cm
- Shrinkage of an organ-
Atrophy
- Ingested (background rad)
K40
- How many % lead apron
99% attenuation
- 95% of occupational dose obtained
mobile &fluoroscopy
- Ensure maximum instrument calibrated at least:
annually; filmbadge- 1 month
- Types of apron at pregnancy
wrap around
- Proper collimation contribute to:
(A & B; increasing image contrast & reduce patient dose
- Which of the ff. are the features of fluoroscopic equipment-
protective curtain, filtration-2.5, collimation
- Lead is the most common shielding material due to the ff. reasons
high atomic #, high density; 1&2
- Who is the person in the hospital responsible for radiation sources
radiation safety officer; D
- Area required for shielding
fully occupied adjacent area
- Most common.. in cell
orming reactive free radicals
instruments should be calibrated annualy
radiolysis in water; B
- Ff. are the methods in radiation exposure control & diagnostic therapeutic radiology-
AOTA
- Materials used to substitute lead-
masonry
the most common thickness of lead used as lead apron.
• 0.5mm
• Minimum dimension of xray room with radiographic table
3.5 m x 4.0 m
• Radiation level measurements at the other side of the walls and door/s shall not exceed
2.5 mR/hr
length of time that the machine is turned on
• Use factor
are Developing an appropriate radiation safety program and maintaining radiation monitoring records for all personnel
radiation safety officer (RSO)
amount of dose delivered per unit time
• Exposure rate
Is the cause of multiple scan average doses (MSAD) to increase
• Overlapping slices
is the most useful tool for comparing radiation doses among different protocols
• CTDI VOLUME
• 131 GBq of F-18 during a 2 h irradiation
3.5 Ci
• 370 MBq (10 mCi) of
F-18 FDG- 7 mSv
• limit the Mo-99 contamination
1 µCi
• walls in the x-ray examination room shall be made of at least _____ poured concrete and at least_____ thickness of properly filled concrete hollow blocks and cement plaster.
15 cm; 20 cm
or transportable x-ray facility, x-ray examination room should be at least _____ and only upright chest x-ray examinations shall be allowed.
1.0 m x 2.0 m
A dose equivalent at a tissue depth of 1 cm
• Deep dose equivalence
Annual shallow dose equivalent
• 500 mSv
should be stored in or adjacent to a radiation area
• control monitor
• Common problems with dosimetry associated with falsely low radiation exposure is when____
people are not wearing dosimeters when working with radiation source.
Refers to the distance to the adjacent occupied area In the calculation of barrier thickness
• distance factor
• input phosphor of the image intensifier is positioned___
35 cm above table top
ESE for Chest PA X-ray in modern radiography
• 0.01 mGy
most significant source of background radiation that is from ingestion
K40
Pb attenuates 99% of secondary radiation
1mm