Unit tests for final review 2233 Flashcards
Intensifying screens
emit light
What was the first modality to use the process of digital imaging in diagnostic radiology
CT
Digital radiography was first introduced by
fuji in 1983
The computer radiography cassette is called what?
Imaging plate
Computed radiography and the screen-film imaging both have what?
latent image
When switching from screen film imaging to computed radiography, which step in the processing is elimitated for the technologist
Reloading the cassettes
An a digital radiography system, which of the following are needed to produce a radiographic image?
X-ray absorber and CCD
What is used in PSP image capture to release the latent image
What is used in PSP image capture to release the latent image
Focused laser light
T or F? changing matrix or the FOV will not change the size of the pixel.
F! You can change the matrix without affecting the FOV and you can change the FOV without affecting the matrix, but a change in either one will change the pixel size
Each square in a matrix is called
A picture element or pixel
The measurement for radiation that was incident on the image receptor for a particular exposure is known as
K IND
Who was the first person to incorporate digital imaging with the CT scanner
Godfrey Hounsfield
Early picture archival and communication systems were developed
By the U. s military
Teleradiography utilized what to produce radiographic images?
Telephone lines
Compared with a 90 second processing time found in conventional radiography, image acquisition with digital radiography has now been reduced to
3 -5 seconds
In conventional radiography film processing the sensitivity speck has this electrical charge
Negative
Another name for exposure latitude is
Dynamic range
What controls optical density in conventional radiography
mAs
The perfect image and Processing System would have A MTF of
100 percent
The ____ is a measurement of the percentage of x-rays that is absorbed when they hit the detector
DQE
Which of the following cannot be controlled by the technologist and is much dependent on manufacturer and detector quality
Equipment noise
The nyquist theorem says that the
Sampling frequency must be twice the input signal bandwidth
Changing the slope of the look-up table graph will increase or decrease the
Contrast
The first version of DICOM was completed in
1985
Low pass filtering is also called
Smoothing
An image manipulation process that fills in the background so that it is darkened is also known as
shuttering
Shuttering
Annotating for the purpose of identifying the patient’s left or right side
Should be used in conjunction with the technologist’s markers
T or F ? Computed radiography in digital radiography can use the existing diagnostic equipment found in today’s imaging room
False
DICOM is a standard that allows imaging modalities and PACS to commnuicate in the same language. True or false?
True
Data collected within the collimator are represented by A
Pixel graph histogram
What to intensifying screens to do
Emits light
Teleradiology, moving images of via the telephone line was concepturalized by
Albert jutras
The x-ray absorber typically used in direct capture is a
Photo conductor
The first full-scale PACS was installed in 1993 in
Baltimore
True or false? A Bucky apparatus is required for digital radiography
False
Is sample resolution a critical characteristics of a digital image ?
no
The number of bits per pixel is called its
Pixel depth
Which of the following terms determines the size of the pixel
Matrix
How dark or how light a digital image appears on a monitor is called
Brightness
If the entire range of exposures were digitized, pixel values representing what would be digitized
All the values
They range of exposure values the image detector is able to produce is known as
latitude
The histogram displays the useful signal by locating
Maximum and minimum signals
High pass filtering is useful for enhancing
Organs and soft tissue
What is the amplification of the frequencies in the areas of interest
Edge enhancement
Window____ controls contrast, whereas window ___ blank controls ratio of black and white
width ; width
What part of the body was the first area scanned by a CT scanner
head
S, IgM, and EXI are symbols for
Exposure indicator or vendor specific exposure indicators
The acronym DICOM stands for
Digital imaging and communications in medicine
The computed radiography cassette is backed by aluminum that
Absorbs x-rays
Which one of the following serves to protect against static buildup, dust collection, and mechanical damage to the imaging plate
felt material
The reflective layer
Sends light in a forward direction
When the imaging plate is irradiated, stimulated electrons enter the
Active layer
The optical mirror in the reader
Directs the laser beam to the imaging plate surface
The devices that moves the laser rapidly back and forth across the imaging plate is known as
beam deflector
The power source for the laser must be
Constant
Imaging plates should be erased every
week
Computed radiography imaging plates are erased by flooding the plate with
Light
The number of bits per pixel is known as bit
Depth
The amount of detail present in any image is known as
Spatial resolution
The imaging plate reader uses a laser to scan the imaging plate, releasing the energy stored in the phosphor layer as
Blue light
Selection of the incorrect body part from the examination menu may result in
Image misinterpretation
Kilovoltage Peak can be chosen
For the type and amount of contrast desired
The range of Kilovoltage Peak that can be used for computed radiography is
45 to 120 Kilovoltage Peak
When insufficient light is produced by the imaging plate phosphor, the image will
be grainy
Which of the following should be considered when selecting this CR cassette
Size and type
The higher the number of pixels in a matrix and the
Higher the image resolution
Grid use for CR examinations is more critical than in film screen radiography because CR
Imaging plates record more densities
Grid ratio describes the
Relationship between the height of the lead strips to the interspace
Which of the following require more critical beam centering
Focused grid
Collimation to a smaller area
Decreases Compton interaction
A device that includes a photosensitive array and small pixels that convert light into electrical charges is known as a
Thin film
Flat camel detectors that use indirect conversion technology convert
X-ray is to visible light
The type of flat-panel detector that uses thin films of silicon integrated with a raise of photodiodes is known as a
Amorphous silicon detector
cesium iodide detectors use
Thin crystalline needles
A highly efficient indirect conversion system that takes up less fill space than CCD is known as
CMOS
When specialized pixels in a complementary metal oxide silicon system are struck with x-ray photons
All of the above
Digital imaging systems have
Wider DQE latitude than screen film systems
The DQE of detectors changes with changes in
KVp
The main factor that limits image quality in cassetteless image acquisition is
noise
Data collected within the collimator are represented by a
Histogram
The higher than kVp the
Narrower the histogram
The longer an image is stored in the CR cassette the
More energy is lost by the electrons
The wraparound image or image aliasing occurs when
Sampling occurs less than twice per cycle
The phosphor layer is made of phosphors from the
Barium fluorohalide family