Learning Plan 1 Vocabulary

Question 1

What is a cathode ray?

Answer 1

A stream of high-speed electrons that originates from the cathode in an x-ray tube.

Question 2

What is a dental radiograph?

Answer 2

A photographic image produced on an image receptor by the passage of x-rays through teeth and related structures.

Question 3

What is a dental radiographer?

Answer 3

Any person who positions, exposes, and processes dental x-ray image receptors.

Question 4

What is fluorescence?

Answer 4

A glow that results wen a fluorescent substance is struck by light, cathode ray, or x-rays.

Question 5

What is radiation?

Answer 5

A form of energy carried by waves or a stream of particles.

Question 6

What is x-radiation?

Answer 6

A high-energy radiation produced by the collision of a beam of electrons with a metal target in an x-ray tube.

Question 7

What is an x-ray?

Answer 7

A beam of energy that has the power to penetrate substances and record image shadows in photographic film or digital sensors.

Question 8

How do radiographs benefit patients?

Answer 8

Provides information that can not be seen by the naked eye.

Question 9

What is the purpose of radiation guidelines?

Answer 9

To protect the patients and ourselves to minimize the amount of radiation both parties are exposed to.