Ira Week 2 - Week Quiz (221) Flashcards
What is the purpose of aluminum in cassette ?
Absorbs scatter
Purpose of felt material?
Helps w/ static
What layer traps electrons
Active layer.
What happens in color layer?
Absorbs I reflective light.
Reflective color layer reflects light where?
Forward
Why barcode on cassettes?
Identifies patient.
Specific phosphor?
Barium fluoride.
Electrons get absorbed
In what layer
Phosphor layer.
Layer beam reads cassette (in raster) what’s happening to atoms?
Bombarding each other
What way are photons traveling
Traveling in same direction
How often is cassette used
50 cassettes per hour
Digitization what happens
Photons getting assigned #’s (being translated)
How does layer scan cassette?
, In raster pattern
What determines PSP resolution.(3)
A pixel, # of pixels and how thick phosphor layer
How to erase image?
Flashbange ( flush w/light)