Radiation and Fluoroscopic Equipment

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Radiation and Fluoroscopic Equipment

• Tour of Ionizing Lab

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What to Expect this Week.

• Radiation Equipment and Tour

• Assignments

• Radiation Equipment
• X-ray Tube components
• Main components of Fluoroscopic Equipment
• Tour of Lab

• Discussion Question Due
• QUIZ 1

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Terminology

• X-ray tube assembly
• Collimator
• Radiographic table
• Bucky tray
• Wall Bucky tray
• Tube support
• Generator
• Control console
• Free floating
• Kilovoltage
• Millamperes
• Exposure
• Mobile radiography
• Radiolucent
• Radio-opaque
• Thermionic emission
• Focusing cup
• Terminal-positive, negative

• Longitudinal
• Vertical
• Transverse
• Alignment
• Table top
• Tube angulation
• Image receptor
• Cassette
• Computed radiography
• Digital radiography
• Fluoroscopy
• PACS
• Post processing
• Viewing station
• Current
• Kinetic energy
• Potential energy
• Pyrex glass

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Radiation Equipment

• Inside the x-ray room

• Outside the x-ray room

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X-ray Tube Assembly

• Cathode Terminal, Anode Terminal

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Collimator Assembly
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Collimator Assembly
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Xray Table Apparatus
Fluoroscopy tube and table
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X-ray tube and table movements
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X-ray table apparatus
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X-ray Table Apparatus
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X-ray Table Apparatus
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Image Receptors
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Potter-Bucky tray
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Wall Bucky Tray
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Control Panel

• Factors that technologist can control from the
  control panel are
• Kilovoltage of x-ray
• Milliampere of x-ray
• Time of exposure

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Control Panel
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Ancillary Equipment
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Portable X-ray
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X-ray Tube Assembly

• Cathode Terminal

• Anode Terminal

• Positive charge when kilovoltage applied
• Tungsten target
• Rotating vs. fixed target

• Negative charge when millamps applied
• Tungsten filament
• Focusing cup
• Thermionic emission

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Miscellaneous equipment
Positioning sponges Tape Lead aprons Lead
blockers Markers Sand bags linens
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8. Describe tube travel
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7. Describe Tube Travel
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9. Describe how the tube would travel in order
to direct x-ray output at 1??
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Lab Tour
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X-ray Tube Assembly
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X-ray Tube Assembly
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X-ray Tube Assembly

• Cathode

• Anode

• Negative terminal
• Tungsten filament
• Focusing cup
• Milliamps applied
• Determines amount of electrons
• Thermionic emission

• Positive terminal
• Tungsten target
• Rotating or fixed target
• Target angle
• Neck of anode
• Rotor, stators

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Cathode Terminal

• Negative terminal
• Tungsten filament
• Focusing cup
• Milliamps applied
• Determines amount of electrons
• Thermionic emission

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Anode Terminal

• Positive terminal
• Tungsten target
• Rotating or fixed target
• Target angle
• Neck of anode
• Rotor, stators
• Kilovoltage applied

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X-ray Tube Housing
Pyrex glass encasement Window for x-rays to
exit Lead and steel Oil for cooling