Exam 7: Basic Instrumentation

All of the following are major systems in the basic equipment configuration for computed tomography (CT) except:

Which room generally houses the gantry and patient couch and should be large enough to accommodate gurneys and emergency equipment?

Software modules for CT scanners allow each of the following except:

Hardware refers to the instructions or programs written for the computer to solve problems in a specific way.

All of the following are purposes of the image display, recording, storage, and communication system except:

The term pipelining describes a method of processing information with separate computers performing different tasks as combined work.

The CT gantry houses all of the following except:

Communications refer to electronic networking or connectivity with use of a local-area or wide-area network.

Which of the following houses the host computer and other peripheral computing equipment?

The purpose of the imaging system is to perform all of the following except:

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is a standard for connectivity in radiology in order to allow multimodality and multivendor communication.

CT workstation computers are classified as supercomputers for their processing capabilities and size.

Which of the following allows the technologist to alter picture contrast?

The opening in the gantry in which the patient is positioned during scanning is called the:

The following are accessories for a CT scanner except:

The computer room generally houses the film recording equipment.

The concept of modular design in CT scanner development is intended to:

Which of the following supports the patient during a CT examination?

In general, the tilting range of a CT gantry is about:

Which information system is responsible for patient registration, exam scheduling, and patient tracking?