Safety Kettering Audio Flashcards
Definition of Thermionic Emission:
Boiling off of electrons, liberation of electrons
Responsible for sending the current for thermionic emission to take place:
Filament Transformer or Step down transformer
Electric potential/potential difference/source of EMF represents the unit of the:
Volt
The unit of electric potential:
Volt
What charge does the anode carry? positive or negative?
positive electrode
What material makes up target surface?
Tungsten Target with Rhenium
Or
Tungsten
The two components that make up the cathode:
filament wires and focusing cup
What charge does the cathode carry? positive or negative?
negatively charged
What material makes up the filament wires?
Thoriated Tungsten
What material makes up the focusing cup?
molybdenum or nickle
99% of the interaction process gets converted to:
Heat (Thermal Energy)
Up to 1% gets converted to:
electromagnetic energy (x-ray photons)
Electrons get converted to: (when they interact with the target surface):
x-ray photons
When electrons interact with the target surface it is called the:
side of conversion
Where do electrons get converted to x-ray photons?
the target surface
Smallest subdivision of an element that maintains all the physical and chemical properties of the element:
Atom
We know that protons are (+) positively charged, nuetrons are no charge or neutral and electrons are negatively charged within the nucleus we call them:
nucleons (properties of the nucleus)
Upside down T is a symbol for:
Perpendicular Central Ray
CR:
Central Ray
IR:
Image Receptor
z
Atomic number
Atomic mass number (A) definition:
number of nucleons or number of protons + neutrons
Atomic number (z) definition:
the number of protons in the nucleus
the electrons and the protons are highley attracted to each other, how come the protons don’t fly out to see the electrons, how come the electrons do not fly inward:
Because you have two counteractive forces competing with each other, syntripical vs syntripical force.
The binding energy of the K-shell of Tungsten?
69.53 kEV or 70 kEV
What is the atomic number of Tungsten?
z=74 (74 protons 74 electrons)
The number of electrons in the last or outermost shell:
valence number
What is the maximum number of electrons you can have in the 3rd shell (M)?
2 (3)^2 2x9= 18 electrons
What is the maximum number of electrons in any one shell?
2n^2
What is the maximum number of electrons in the valance shell?
maximum of 8
The definition of Isotropic Emission:
X-rays are emitted by the focal spot in all directions
The definition of Attenuation:
The reduction of the intensity of the beam as it passes through matter
The definition of Ionization:
The removal of an orbital shell electron
An atom of tungsten, if ionization takes place and drop the electron. The previously uncharged atom will have an electrical charge. After ionization takes place what charge will the atom carry?
positively charged (74 protons 73 electrons)
In x-ray production when x-rays get produced/when x-rays get produced in the tube:
Bremsstrahlung
Characteristic
When x-rays interact with matter:
Compton
Coherent
Photoelectric
Projectile (high speed) electron interacts with the electrostatic field of the (tungsten) nucleus:
Bremsstrahlung
The projectile electron undergoes three processes:
Slows Down
Changes Direction
Loses some of its energy
When the electron becomes under the influence of the nucleus, what continues on:
the momentum effect of the production of an unknown ray (x-ray)
Bremsstrahlung x-ray emission*
Average x-ray energy beam about:
30% of peak
In order to produce characteristic radiation:
70 kV and above
If the technologist does a hand x-ray at 60 kVp:
the electron can not ionize an remove it
4 requirements of production x-rays:
Source of free electrons
Accelerate electrons across the tube
Focus the electrons
Deceleration
Send a current to the wire, the wire gets hot and electrons get boiled off through in the process of:
Thermionic Emission
The _____ determines the amount of current that will be sent to the filament (step down transformer)
MA
As the number of secondary turns decreases voltage:
Decreases
Current increases proportionally
Rhenium:
Bigger stronger faster to stand up to the high speed electrons bombarding it constantly
Atoms exist with a net nuetrality of:
0
We produce two types of radiation in the diagnostic imaging world;
Bremsstrahlung
Characteristic
When there is an interaction with the k-she’ll, ionization takes place and the L shell fills the void:
Characteristic Interaction
All photons always maintain four properties:
Frequency
Wavelength
Velocity
Amplitude
An x-ray is considered to be:
Photon
A light photon is considered an
X-ray
X-radiation is:
Electromagnetic Energy
Which of the following are examples of particulate radiation?
Alpha
Beta
The rate of the rise and fall or how often:
Frequency
The distance between two coressponding points:
Wavelength
At 60 kv; ______ wavelength, _____ frequency
Longer, lower
At 90 kV, ______ wavelength; ______ frequency
Shorter, higher
Is there a difference in velocity in a 60 kEV photon and a 90 kEV photon?
No difference
Velocity is a constant factor
X-ray photons move:
At the speed of light or not at all
What is the speed of light?
186,000 miles/second
3 x 10^8 meters per second
What is the relationship between wavelength and frequency?
Inversely proportional
As wavelength increases frequency decreases
What is the relationship between wavelength and energy?
Inversely proportional
As wavelength increase energy decrease
What is the relationship between frequency and energy?
Directly proportional
Increase frequency increase energy
Which controls the quality kvp or mAs?
kVp
Which controls the energy? kVp or mAs
kVp
Which controls the penetrability?
kVp
mAs
kVp
Which controls the quantity?
mAs