Medical Imaging

Small, focused doses of high energy radiation passes through the subject, casting a "shadow" on the machine's sensors

• MRI

• X-Ray

• CT

• PET

• Ultrasonography

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Uses a very strong magnetic field

• MRI

• X-Ray

• CT

• PET

• Ultrasonography

Great detail on soft tissues like the brain, tendons and ligaments.

• MRI

• X-Ray

• CT

• PET

• Ultrasonography

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A sectional X-ray. Okay for soft tissues. Great for dense tissues.

• MRI

• X-Ray

• CT

• PET

• Ultrasonography

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A noninvasive technique using x-rays and a computer to visualize transverse planes of body tissue are ______________.

• CT scans

• mammograms

• X-rays

• Angiography

Which of the following scans does not use radiation?

• MRI

• CT scan

• PET scan

• X-ray

Non-screen film would most likely be used to take which type of radiography?

• Thoracic

• Dental

• Skull

• OFA Hip

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MRI technology primarily uses which of the following to generate images?

• X-rays

• Magnetic fields and radio waves

• High-frequency sound waves

• Gamma rays

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What is NOT a component of a cassette in film radiography?

• Lead front

• Protection from light

• Padding to maintain film-screen contact

• Secure latches

The term that means using an image intensifier to create a brighter image by taking a few x-ray photons and converting that energy into many light photons is the

• brightness gain

• minification gain

• flux gain

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