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Test Bank Radiographic Imaging and Exposure 6th Edition

by Terri L. Fauber A+
Chapter 01: Radiation and Its Discovery

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. When were X-rays discovered?

a. October 8, 1985

b. November 8, 1895

c. January 23, 1896

d. August 15, 1902

CORRECT ANSWER: B

X-rays were discovered by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen on November 8, 1895.

REFFERENCE: p.1

2. What type of tube was Roentgen working with in his lab when X-rays were discovered?

a. Crookes tube

b. Fluorescent tube

c. High-vacuum tube

d. Wurzburg tube

CORRECT ANSWER: A

Roentgen was working with a low-vacuum tube known as a Crookes tube.

REFFERENCE: p.2




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3. Which of the following terms could be defined as the instantaneous production of light

only during an interaction between a type of energy and some element or compound?

a. Phosphorescence

b. Afterglow

c. Glowing

d. Fluorescence

CORRECT ANSWER: D

Fluorescence is the instantaneous emission of light from a material due to the interaction with

some type of energy.

REFFERENCE: p.2

4. Barium platinocyanide was the:

a. type of dark paper Roentgen used to darken his laboratory.

b. material Roentgen used to produce the first radiograph of his wife’s hand.

c. metal used to produce the low-vacuum tube.

d. fluorescent material that glowed when the tube was energized.

CORRECT ANSWER: D

A piece of paper coated with barium platinocyanide glowed each time Roentgen energized his

tube.

REFFERENCE: p.2



5. The first radiograph produced by Roentgen, of his wife’s hand, required an exposure time

of:

a. 15 s.


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b. 150 s.

c. 15 min.

d. 150 min.

C

It took a 15-min exposure time to produce the first radiograph.

REFFERENCE: p.3

6. The letter x in x-ray is the symbol for:

a. electricity.

b. the unknown.

c. penetrating.

d. discovery.

B

The letter x represents the mathematical symbol of the unknown.

REFFERENCE: p.3

7. The first Nobel Prize for physics was received in 1901 by:

a. Marie Curie.

b. William Crookes.

c. Wilhelm Roentgen.

d. Albert Einstein.

C

Wilhelm Roentgen received the first Nobel Prize for physics in 1901.

REFFERENCE: p.4

8. X-rays were at one time called:


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a. Becquerel rays.

b. Roentgen rays.

c. Z-rays.

d. none of the above.

B

X-rays were at one time called Roentgen rays.

REFFERENCE: p.4

9. Erythema, an early sign of biologic damage due to x-ray exposure, is:

a. reddening of the skin.

b. a malignant tumor.

c. a chromosomal change.

d. one of the most serious effects of x-ray exposure.

A



Erythema is reddening and burning of the skin, an early and less serious effect of exposure to

large doses of x-radiation.

REFFERENCE: p.5

10. X-rays have which of the following properties?

a. Electrical

b. Magnetic

c. Chemical

d. A and B

e. A and C


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