RADT STUDY EXAMS GUIDE 2026 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔ARS stages hallmarks - ✔✔sick, no sickness, hematopoietic/GI system/CNS
system, recovery/death
✔✔Two types of dosimeters - ✔✔Thermoluminescent Dosimeters and Optically
Stimulated Dosimeters
✔✔CT - ✔✔x-ray, IVs
✔✔MRI - ✔✔magnetic, IVs, machine doesn't turn off
✔✔Sonography - ✔✔sound waves, 4 semesters of school
✔✔no extra school - ✔✔Mammogram and bone densitometry
✔✔nuclear medicine - ✔✔radiopharmaceutical, IVS, x-ray
✔✔Forensic Imaging - ✔✔virtopsy
, ✔✔inverse square law - ✔✔the farther the patients are from a source of radiation, the
less exposure they will receive.
✔✔standards of conduct - ✔✔ideals essential to meeting both the emotional and
physical needs of patients
✔✔Medicolegal - ✔✔lapses in ethics, patient confidentiality, standards of care, or
professional judgement
✔✔case law - ✔✔law that arises from the courts interpretations of these constitutions,
statues, and regulations
✔✔false imprisonment - ✔✔unnecessarily confining or restraining the patient without
their permission
✔✔to be found negligent in court - ✔✔element of duty, element of breach of duty,
element of injury, and element of relationship between the duty and the injury
✔✔patient consent can be - ✔✔written, oral, or implied
✔✔consent to be valid - ✔✔legal age, mentally competent, must offer consent
voluntarily, and must be informed about medical care being recommended
✔✔CT has 3 functions - ✔✔scanning unit, computer, and viewing unit
✔✔erythema - ✔✔(redness)early days unit of measure
✔✔Becquerel - ✔✔unit of measure in nuclear medicine with radionuclides
✔✔Air - ✔✔radiation in the air
✔✔gray - ✔✔absorbed radiation
✔✔sievert - ✔✔effective dose
✔✔photoelectric effect interaction - ✔✔knocks the inner shell electron out of orbit and
transfers all its energy to the electron
✔✔Compton effect interaction - ✔✔knocks the outer shell and transfers some of its
energy to the orbital electron.
✔✔the orbital electron is known as - ✔✔Ejected Compton Electron
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔ARS stages hallmarks - ✔✔sick, no sickness, hematopoietic/GI system/CNS
system, recovery/death
✔✔Two types of dosimeters - ✔✔Thermoluminescent Dosimeters and Optically
Stimulated Dosimeters
✔✔CT - ✔✔x-ray, IVs
✔✔MRI - ✔✔magnetic, IVs, machine doesn't turn off
✔✔Sonography - ✔✔sound waves, 4 semesters of school
✔✔no extra school - ✔✔Mammogram and bone densitometry
✔✔nuclear medicine - ✔✔radiopharmaceutical, IVS, x-ray
✔✔Forensic Imaging - ✔✔virtopsy
, ✔✔inverse square law - ✔✔the farther the patients are from a source of radiation, the
less exposure they will receive.
✔✔standards of conduct - ✔✔ideals essential to meeting both the emotional and
physical needs of patients
✔✔Medicolegal - ✔✔lapses in ethics, patient confidentiality, standards of care, or
professional judgement
✔✔case law - ✔✔law that arises from the courts interpretations of these constitutions,
statues, and regulations
✔✔false imprisonment - ✔✔unnecessarily confining or restraining the patient without
their permission
✔✔to be found negligent in court - ✔✔element of duty, element of breach of duty,
element of injury, and element of relationship between the duty and the injury
✔✔patient consent can be - ✔✔written, oral, or implied
✔✔consent to be valid - ✔✔legal age, mentally competent, must offer consent
voluntarily, and must be informed about medical care being recommended
✔✔CT has 3 functions - ✔✔scanning unit, computer, and viewing unit
✔✔erythema - ✔✔(redness)early days unit of measure
✔✔Becquerel - ✔✔unit of measure in nuclear medicine with radionuclides
✔✔Air - ✔✔radiation in the air
✔✔gray - ✔✔absorbed radiation
✔✔sievert - ✔✔effective dose
✔✔photoelectric effect interaction - ✔✔knocks the inner shell electron out of orbit and
transfers all its energy to the electron
✔✔Compton effect interaction - ✔✔knocks the outer shell and transfers some of its
energy to the orbital electron.
✔✔the orbital electron is known as - ✔✔Ejected Compton Electron
