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Question: 5 ways x-rays with matter?Answer: scattering, comptom effect, photelectric effect, pair production, photodisintegration
Question: 2 most important ways that x-rays with matter in producing x-rays are?Answer: effect, photoelectric
Question: higher energy x-rays result in _________ wave lengthsAnswer:
Question: do x-rays have long or wavelengths?Answer:
Question: moderate engery x-rays interact with _________Answer:
Question: high energy x-rays interact with __________Answer:
Question: two other names for scattering?Answer: scattering, thompson scattering
Question: type of scattering were is no change in energy but a change in directionAnswer: scattering
Question: type of scattering with no Answer: coherent
Question: which direction is commonly seen in coherent ?Answer: forward
Question: type of with ionization of the target atom, change in x-ray direction and reduction of energy?Answer: compton
Question: how is x-ray absorbed in the compton effect?Answer: photoeletrically
Question: what effect is it when are emitted from matter after the absorptionAnswer: photelectric
Question: partial and scatteringAnswer: effect
Question: form of radiation and as such can be dangerousAnswer: X-Rays
Question: type of electromagnetic with wavelengthsAnswer: X-Rays
Question: When radiation is only scattered by one localized scattering center, this is ?Answer: scattering
Question: It is very common that scattering centers are grouped together, and in those cases the may scatter many times, which is known as? Answer: multiple
Question: the decrease in energy (increase in wavelength) of an X-ray or gamma ray , when it interacts with matter?Answer: effect
Question: The amount the wavelength by is called?Answer: shift
Question: scattering where the photon gains energy (decreasing in ) upon interaction with matterAnswer: inverse comtpton
Question: emitted can be referred to as Answer: photoelectrons
Question: Two sources of ionizing radiation to which is exposed? Answer: Natural environmental (background ) Man-made radiation
Question: of natural environmental (background) radiation? Answer: Cosmic radiation from the sun and stars Radioactive elements in the (uranium, radium, thorium) Radio-potassium and radiocarbon (found in foods, drinking water, and the air)
Question: Man made sources? Answer: Fallout from nuclear weapons testing and effluents from power plants Radioactive materials used in industry Medical and dental exposures
Question: Answer: As Low As Achievable
Question: The amount of radiation needed, when to the skin, to make it turn temporarily red?Answer: erythema
Question: A unit of radiation measured by the amount of ionization in air. In non-bony biological tissue 1 roentgen delivers a dose approximately equal to 1 rad?Answer:
Question: one ______ equal to the absorption of radiation energy per gram of matter. It has been replaced by the gray?Answer:
Question: Roentgen equivalent man, a unit used in radiation protection to measure the amount of damage to human tissue from a dose of radiation?Answer:
Question: A unit of that represents the amount of radioactivity associated with one gram of radium?Answer: Curie
Question: basis for the NCRP’s of policies and procedures for radiation exposuresAnswer:
Question: workers are limited by a maximum of Effective Dose Equivalent of?Answer: 5 rem per
Question: General public is a dose limit of?Answer: .5 rem per
Question: Anyone less than 18 old should receive no more than?Answer: 0.1 rem -body dose in 1 year
Question: woman should not receive no more than?Answer: .5 rem per
Question: SOURCES OF EXPOSURE Two sources of medical radiation are? X-rays (external source) Radionuclides (internal source) Answer: X-rays (external ) Radionuclides (internal source)
Question: Ways in mutations can manifest themselves are? Answer: Miscarriages Physical defects Metabolic or biologic changes causing a predisposition to disease or premature death
Question: Dose is in?Answer: grays (Gy) or (Sv)
Question: REM ?Answer: radiation
Question: radiation absorption is by?Answer: RAD, radiation dose
Question: 100 RAD = how many Gy?Answer:
Question: what is the unit of activity?Answer:
Question: What does EDE for?Answer: effective dose
Question: there is no energy at a deflection of how many degrees?Answer: zero
Question: which has a frequency, hard or soft x-rays?Answer: hard
Question: has a shorter wavelength hard x-rays or soft x-rays?Answer:
Question: what is it called when electrons are emitted from matter after the absorption of energy from electromagnetic ?Answer:
Question: what effect is it when electrons are emitted from matter after the absorption of energy from electromagnetic ?Answer: hertz
Question: the theory of an elecctromagnetic wave scattered by particles?Answer: scattering
Question: the wavelength of the incident x-ray is _________ the wavelength of the scattered x-ray?Answer: equal
Question: most coherently x-rays are scattered in what direction?Answer: forward
Question: decrease in energy (increase in ) of a x-ray or gamma ray photon when it interacts with matter is called?Answer: scattering
Question: in this type of scattering the photon gains energy (wavelength gets shorter) as it interacts with ?Answer: compton scattering
Question: amount a changes is know as?Answer: shift
Question: what type of is it if a photon has low energy but still has sufficient enough energy to eject an electron from its host atom?Answer: photoelectric
Question: when higher energy photons bombard the nucleus and cause an electron and positron to be formed it is ?Answer: pair
 
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