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During fluoroscopy, which of the following will produce the greatest amount of scatter radiation that you should distance yourself from?

You are the director of a busy medical imaging department. One of your technologists has been accused of looking up the personal medical records and x-ray reports of his brother’s girlfriend. The girlfriend visited the hospital as a patient for an ultrasound examination of the pelvis to rule out pregnancy. Disciplinary action for this technologist would be appropriate because of a violation of:

The patient in the figure shown is placed in which of the following positions?

A physician fails to explain the risks and possible complications of an invasive procedure when he asks the patient to sign a consent form.  Which ethical principle has been breached?

What does the unit Roentgen (or Coulombs/Kg) measure?

Which of the following types of radiation is classified as electromagnetic?

The body position in the illustration above is:

“Rotation” of the arm toward the midline of the body from the anatomical position is termed:

Which of the following in not a legal right of a patient in the medical imaging department?

If a radiographer performed a lumbar spine examination on a patient who was supposed to have an elbow examination, which of the following charges may be brought against the radiographer?