laws

Question 1

” ___” radiation: when the electron slows down and changes its direction after its been emited

Answer 1

“braking” radiation

Question 2

___ radiation: a projectile e- interacts with a target nucleus whcih causes an x ray to be emitted

Answer 2

brewmsstrhlung

Question 3

___ effect: interaction btw moderate NRG x rays and the outershell e- of matter causes scatter radiation

Answer 3

comptom effect (MC form of Scatter)

non-diagnostic

Question 4

___ effect: x rays in the diagnostic range interact with inner shell e- so the xray is not scattered but completely absorbed

Answer 4

photoelectric effect

electron is completely absorbed

Question 5

___: (aka radiographic noise) refers to the random nature the xrays interact with image receptor

resulting in: grnular / spotty image

Answer 5

quantum mottle

Question 6

how is radiographic noise reduced? (aka quantum mottle)

Answer 6

high MAS, low KVP nd slower image receptors