Which of the following terms is defined as radiation exposure received by radiation workers in the course of exercising their professional responsibilities?

Which of the following are early tissue effects of exposure to ionizing radiation? Diffuse redness of the skin Organ atrophy Shedding of the outer layer of skin Intestinal disorders

_____ measures the amount of ionizations, or electron-ion pairs, produced in a controlled volume of air.

An incoming photon of 1 MeV interacts with an orbital electron causing ionization of the atom and a 0.9 MeV scattered photon.  This describes an event called:

_____ are a type of particulate radiation that are the positively charged components of an atom. It is also what gives an atom its atomic number.

Which of the following terms are synonymous with one another?

Who was the first American radiation worker to die from radiation-induced cancer and in what year did it occur?

What are the by-products of the following type of interaction? Photodisintegration(2).jpg

What are the names of the photons that are created in the following atom? Photoelectric absorption(4).jpg

The average US resident receives a total of approximately how much radiation per year?