2024 National Radiology Technologist Week Crossword

3. acronym for keeping the radiation dose as small as possible when performing medical imaging procedures
5. a naturally occuring metal; a contrast material
7. the position you lay in starring at the ceiling from bed after a long/stressful day at work
8. the incredible personnel working in any discipline or specialty area of radiologic technology
9. a special kind of xray machine used to screen for breast cancer
13. the hospital/company that has the best imaging team in the area
14. radiant energy from waves or subatomic particles- what xrays are
15. a diagnostic radiologic modality in which the nuclei of the hydrogen atoms in a patient are aligned in a strong uniform magnetic field; absorb energy from tuned radio pulses; then emit radio signals

1. having something that will absorb radiation between you and the source of the radiation; controversial whether this should be used or not.
2. the process of obtaining an image for diagnostic examinations using x-rays
4. a sunrise view in x-ray is looking at what body part
6. a medical specialty that uses radioactive tracers to assess bodily functions and to diagnose and treat disease
10. a unit of measurements for absorbed dose; there's apparently 50 shades of it
11. lab value that needs to be resulted before IV contrast; and the one you hate arguing with physicians about
12. the last name of the man who discovered xrays in 1895.