Multiple Choice
When the x-ray photon strikes an atom within the tissue being imaged and loses all of its energy to an inner shell electron of that atom,the photon is said to have been _____ and undergone the _____.
A) transmitted; Compton effect
B) absorbed; photoelectric interaction
C) attenuated; Compton effect
D) scattered; coherent interaction
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