Image Receptors CR&DR

2. Acronym for DR performance metric describing how effectively absorbed radiation is converted to signal.
6. What PSP layer absorbs X-ray energy and creates a latent image?
9. In indirect DR, the scintillator converts x-rays into what?
10. DR images are transferred instantly to hospital networks through this system
15. What electronic component in DR stores pixel charge before readout.
16. DR detectors usually have a ___ dynamic range compared to film.
18. The laser in CR stimulates trapped electrons, which fall back and release light via this process.
19. Compared to CR, DR usually requires a higher or lower exposure dose?
20. Flat-panel detectors in DR are typically made of glass coated with thin-film ____.
21. The scintillator material in indirect DR detectors, structured into columnar crystals.

1. In CR, the laser commonly used to stimulate phosphor plates is made of this element.
3. The process of repeatedly reusing a CR plate without full erasure can cause this artifact.
4. In CR, what device collects and amplifies the light emitted from the plate?
5. Acronym for the electronic standard used to format DR and CR images.
7. In CR, the stored energy in the phosphor layer comes from displaced ____.
8. Acronym for the efficiency of an imaging system in preserving contrast across spatial frequencies
11. The digital data from DR detectors is read out in units called?
12. In DR systems, thin-film transistors are arranged in a two-dimensional ____.
13. What is the noise level that increases at low exposure in digital detectors.
14. Type of DR conversion that requires a scintillator layer.
17. Direct DR detectors use this amorphous material to convert x-rays directly into charge.