Radiation Protection

Which of the following is used in the calculation of a spilled gas clearance time?

Radium starts with ____ because there's a lot of it in the ground

BERT stands for

Natural radiation includes all except

Why is the worker dose calculation important?

Procedure does not need a physicians approval for minimum radiation exposure

How much radiation are you allowed to get as an occupational worker per year?

The atmosphere ______ the secondary radiation in cosmic radiation

Annual average equivalent dose (EqD)

Perform procedure at this level

CT accounts for _____ of ionizing radiation to the general public

Radon accounts for _____ of ionizing radiation to the general public

How often should the charcoal trap in a xenon administration system be checked?

Most of the nuclear medicine scans are in which category

1 in 2.4 odds of getting cancer then after a moderate risk imaging procedure, it goes up to 1 in 2.393

Radium decays into this heavy gas

Cathode ray tubes in old TV's were causing _____ in people who sat too close to the screen

Today, we still have _____ in our smoke detectors

It is the legal responsibility of the employer to do all except

Most nuclear medicine scans less than 1 in 1, 200 odds of getting cancer

ALARA

Blood changes occur at

Natural radiation is better than artificial because it is naturally occurring

Humans are a little bit internally radioactive due to potassium 40 (b- emitter)

Cosmic radiation is a small percentage of radiation and comes from _______

There's a moderate risk (highest) in which of the following

Your food becomes radioactive if it is irradiated

Radon gas is the 2nd leading cause of lung cancer after smoking

This dose given at once to the gonads causes temporary sterility

You're at very low risk of the amount of background radiation between

Smoke detectors work by

_____ increased radiation exposure to the public

Terrestrial radiation is responsible for about half of our background radiation exposure

You get more radiation exposure from an airport scanner than the flight itself

Assume you are receiving about _____ of radiation per day

Which of the following is correct in regards to a negative pressure room?

You're at low risk of the amount of background radiation between

Artificial radiation includes all except for

There's a 50% chance of death of exposure to 3,000 mSv (300,000 mrem) at once

Patient education is the responsibility of the

Potential risk of adverse effects include each except for