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What is the main advantage of film as a detector?
What is spatial resolution?
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What is the shoulder or Dmax?
What is the the area of the curve called that represents overexposure?
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What is a pixel?
A matrix of two d squares that comprise a digital image
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What is spatial resolution
the ability to accurately image small structures
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What is contrast resolution?
what feature of the digital image improves as bit depth increases
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What is a glass plate?
What was the first detector that Roenten used to record an image?
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What is the straight line portion?.
What is the area that represents correct exposure?
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What is a matrix?
Rows and columns of pixels are called
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What is dynamic range?
the term that refers to the great number of grey shades that a digital detector can record
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What is large storage or long transmission time?
What is a disadvantage of having a large bit depth?
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What is light from intensifying screens?
What caused the film to acquire density?
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What is the toe?
What is the area that represents underexposure?
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What is a histogram?
graphical representation of the grey scale of digital image
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What is great contrast resolution?
a major advantage of digital imaging
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What is DQE?
Refers to the systems ability to convert x-rays into a radiographic image.
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What is mammography?
What was the last modality to abandon film?
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What is film contrast?
What does the steepness of the curve represent?
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What is bit depth?
controls the number of density or brightness values an image is capable of displaying
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What is poor spatial resolution?
limitation of most digital systems
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What is dose or exposure creep?
The term for the tendency of dose to increase with the use of digital imaging
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What is 100 years?
How many years was film used as the main recording device for x-ray images?
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What is wide exposure latitude?
What advantage does a curve with a flatter slope have?
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What is pixel size
controls the spatial resolution of the image
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What is binary?
the number system used in digital imaging
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What is the exposure index?
A vendor specific number that measures the IR exposure and indirectly patient exposure?
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