mocks questions

S: Occupational radiation monitoring is required when it is likely that an individual will receive ___ in a single year.

5 mSv

S: The quality of the x-ray beam can be expressed as

half value layer

S: In case of accidental exposure to a pregnant patient, teh fetal dose should be calculated by teh

medical physicist

S: Radium watch dial painters developed high rates of ____ cancer

bone

S: The function of filtration is to attenuate what frequency, and what wavelength radiation

high frequency, short wavelength (ex. xrays, gamma rays)

S: what risk model should the use of xrays be followed

linear nonthreshold

S: Which personnel monitoring device uses aluminum oxide to record radiation dose

OSL dosimeter

• Optically stimulated luminescence, it doesnt produce a permanent record

S: Tungsten is an ideal anode material because (3)

1. ability to conduct heat

2. high melting point

3. high atomic number

S: The back up time for AEC is set at ___ of the expected exposure time

150%

S: The type of radiation that leaves the patient is called

remnant