Correct Answers
What are the 5 opacities? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Air, fat, water, bone, metal
Which opacity is the most radiopaque? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Metal
Which opacity is the most radiolucent? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Air
What are some pros/cons to computed radiography? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Pros
No chemicals
Quickly obtained image
Plates are replaceable
Cons
Have to replace plates occasionally
Background radiation
Can have more artifacts
Extra step (putting plate through processor)
Direct digital imaging? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔
Different types of radiation/directions they go after leaving the beam? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔
T/F: Better resolution doesn't matter. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔False
, How do you get better resolution? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Purchase a monitor with resolution
as good as or better than the image resolution
What does kVp change? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Contrast
What does mAs change? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Density
What are the 7 lobes of the lungs? Know location of each - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔RCr, RM, RCd,
LCr-Cr, LCr-Cd, LCd, A
In the feline patient, through what "times" is the right atrium visible? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔9-
11
In the feline patient, through what "times" is the left atrium visible? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔2-3
In the feline patient, through what "times" is the left ventricle visible? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔3-6
In the canine patient, through what "times" is the right atrium visible? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔9-11
In the canine patient, through what "times" is the left ventricle visible? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔2-6
T/F: The left atrium is visible in the canine patient - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔False
How can you tell if the patient is in right or left lateral recumbency in an abdominal radiograph?
- CORRECT ANSWER✔✔