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Ture or False: A quantity of radioactive material is measured in units of Gy in the traditional unit system.

Use the answer choices given to match the statement or definition that best matches each term or phrase.

True or False:  If emitted from a radioisotope deposited in the body, alpha particles cannot be absorbed in epithelial tissue and therefore are not damaging to that tissue.

Which of the following are types of ionizing radiation that produce virtually the same biologic effect for equal absorbed doses in body tissue?  (In other words, they have the same quality factor).

Which of the following interactions of radiation and matter is responsible for most of the scattered radiation produced during radiologic procedures?

During the process of photoelectric absorption, which of the following terms refers to the radiation that occurs when an electron drops down from an outer orbit to fill a vacancy in an inner orbit of the parent atom (what does it give off in this process)?

True or False: Radiation protection is defined as effective measures to safeguard patients, personnel, and the general public from unnecessary exposure to ionizing radiation.

Which of the following is considered by the EPA to be the second leading cause of lung cancer in the United States ?

True or False: The equivalent dose (EqD) accounts for the type of ionizing radiation and the organ or organ system being irradiated.

Which of the following is a form of radiation that is capable of creating electrically charged particles by removing orbital electrons from the atoms of the material with which it interacts?