History and Overview of x-rays

Question 1

X-rays were discovered by whom?

Answer 1

Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen

Question 2

What year did Roentgen discover x-rays?

Answer 2

1895

Question 3

Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen was a professor of physics in which country?

Answer 3

Germany

Question 4

The first x-ray image was of what and of whom?

Answer 4

Hand (bones)

Bertha, Roentgen’s wife

Question 5

Originally x-ray was called this:

Answer 5

Roentgen Ray

Question 6

Who was the 1st radiation fatality?

Answer 6

Clarence Dally

Question 7

X-ray was first used by B.J. Palmer as a chiropractic tool and introduced to the PSC in what year?

Answer 7

1910

Question 8

Property of x-ray: EMR ______ reduces intensity.

Answer 8

distance

Question 9

Property of x-ray: _______ capability which causes biological changes.

Answer 9

ionizing

Question 10

Property of x-ray: Penetrate matter but are absorbed by ______ materials. Examples? 3

Answer 10

Dense

lead, cement, dense bone

Question 11

Property of x-ray: produce ____ rays from objects they strike. These rays have detrimental effect on _____ and ____.

Answer 11

Secondary
Film
patient

Question 12

What is a big cause of image distortion?

Answer 12

divergence

Question 13

Property of x-ray: Rays travel in _____ straight lines from their source.

Answer 13

diverging

Question 14

Property of x-ray: Cause certain materials to _______ creating light.

Answer 14

fluoresce

Question 15

Property of x-ray: Expose _____ and ______. Film turns _____ when exposed. With dense area in front of film this areal will be _______.

Answer 15

X-ray
Photographic
Dark
white

Question 16

Property of x-ray: Are not ____ in matter and won’t make it _______.

Answer 16

Stored

radioactive

Question 17

Property of x-ray: Unlike light, they cannot be _____,_____, or _____.

Answer 17

Focused
Reflected
refracted

Question 18

Property of x-ray: Humans senses can or can’t detect them?

Answer 18

can’t

Question 19

What 3 things are needed to give birth to an x-ray?

Answer 19

Source of electrons
A way to accelerate them at a high speed
A hard surface to stop them.

Question 20

What are the parts in the order the x-ray will encounter them?8

Answer 20

Tube
Filter
Collimator
patient
Grid
Cassette
Screen
film