Image Production - Ch. 8 Key Terms
Across
- 3. range: Range of exposures a digital system can accurately record.
- 5. resolution: Ability to display differences in shades of gray.
- 6. radiation: Radiation remaining after passing through the patient.
- 8. image: Visible image after processing.
- 12. Removal of electrons from atoms, forming ions.
- 16. Arrangement of pixels forming a digital image.
- 18. effect: Complete absorption of an x-ray photon with ejection of an inner-shell electron.
- 19. Electron ejected during a photoelectric interaction.
- 20. electron: Outer-shell electron ejected during a Compton interaction.
- 22. electron: Electron produced by x-ray interactions in matter.
- 24. Overall reduction in x-ray beam intensity as it passes through tissue.
Down
- 1. scattering: Low-energy interaction where the photon changes direction without energy loss.
- 2. Deflection of x-ray photons after interaction.
- 4. X-ray energy is completely taken up by matter.
- 7. absorption: Different tissues absorb x-rays at different rates.
- 9. Unwanted exposure that reduces image contrast.
- 10. density: Compactness of tissue affecting x-ray absorption.
- 11. image: Invisible image stored before processing.
- 13. Real-time imaging using continuous or pulsed x-rays.
- 14. receptor: Device that captures x-rays to form an image.
- 15. bit depth: Number of gray shades a pixel can display.
- 17. effect: X-ray photon ejects an outer-shell electron and is scattered with reduced energy.
- 19. Smallest unit of a digital image.
- 21. X-rays passing through tissue without interaction.
- 23. radiation: X-rays that leave the patient and reach the image receptor.