Exam 1: Computed Tomography: An Overview

Who shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology with Hounsfield for his contribution to the computed tomography technique?

The radiation source is outside the patient in all of the following except:

The radiation used by Hounsfield in his original experiments was

Cardiac computed tomography applications include, but are not limited to, quantitative assessment of coronary artery calcifications and ventricular function assessment.

The following developments in computed tomography were introduced during the period between 1973-1983 except:

Please match the following computed tomography concepts. All answer selections will be used just once. -MSAD

Which of the following are dual-source computed tomography scanners primarily used for imaging?

When a large set of transmission measurements is collected from the patient at different locations and is used to build up an image of internal anatomy, it is referred to as:

The British Department of Health and Social Security assisted in the development of the first clinically useful computed tomography scanner.

Data acquisition refers to:

Computed tomography is not well established in the study of diseases of the central nervous system.

Which of the following refers to modifying computed tomographic data to make the images more useful to the observer?

Determining tissue types in computed tomography slices is referred to as volume formation.

In 1996, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved real-time computed tomography fluoroscopy as a clinical tool for use in radiology.

Ambrose received the Nobel Prize in 1979 with Hounsfield.

Please match the following computed tomography concepts. All answer selections will be used just once. -Image reconstruction

Please match the following computed tomography concepts. All answer selections will be used just once. -3D classification

Which term describes the systematic motion of the x-ray tube as it rotates around the patient to collect x-ray transmission readings?

Three-dimensional algorithms, or rendering techniques, transform the transaxial computed tomography data into simulated three-dimensional images.

Please match the following computed tomography concepts. All answer selections will be used just once. -ADC