CH 1 Introduction to digital radiography and PACS

For conventional film/screen radiography the light exposes the film in proportion to the amount and ______ of the x-rays on the screen

Which modality was the first to use digital imaging?

• Diagnostic x-ray

• CT

• MRI

• US

Any imaging acquisition process that produces an electronic image that can be viewed and manipulated on a computer is termed...

• Digital imaging

• Digital radiography

• teleradiology

• Computed radiography

The first commercial CT scanners were built to image the _____ only.

When was MRI introduced commercially for health care?

• 1970s

• 1980s

• 1990s

• 1960s

____ were developed by the US military to move images among VA hospitals.

The digital acquisition modality that uses storage phosphor plates to produce images is termed....

• Flat panel detectors (FPD)

• Photostimulable phosphor (PSP)

• Conventional film/screen

• Digital radiography

Which company was the first to introduce PSP imaging commercially in the US?

• Carestream (Kodak)

• Fuji

• Agfa

• Konica

Which radiographic image capture methods uses chemical development to produce the manifest image?

• Computed tomography

• Fluoroscopy

• Film/screen radiography

• Photostimulable phosphor systems

For indirect capture digital radiography, ______ is collected by an area CCD, CMOS or TFT.

• Photons

• Light

• electrical signal

• photoconductor