Which of the following accounts(s) for x-ray beam heterogeneity? 1. incident electrons interacting with several layers of tungsten target atoms 2. electrons moving to fill different shell vacancies 3. its’s nuclear origin

How will the x-ray photon intensity be affected if the source to image receptor is doubled?

The x-ray interaction with matter that is responsible for the majority of scattered radiation reaching the image receptor (IR) is

Which of the following personnel monitoring devices can be used to provide an immediate exposure readout for a radiation worker? 1. Personnel digital ionization dosimeter2. Optically stimulated luminescence dosimeter without an in-house reader3. Pocket ionization chamber4. Thermoluminesence dosimeter

Which of the following units of measure are not SI units?1. Roentgens2. Coulombs per kilogram, grays, sieverts3. Rads and rems

The production of Bremsstrahlung radiation

As the intensity of x-ray exposure of the air volume increases, the number of electron–ion pairs produced

Which of the following types of ionizing radiation produce virtually the same biologic effect in body tissue for equal absorbed doses?

How many HVLs are required to reduce the intensity of a beam of monoenergetic photons to less than 15% of its original value?

The photoelectric effect is an interaction between an x-ray photon and