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38.75 ARRT Category A CreditsNumber of test questions: 310
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Build the foundation necessary for the practice of CT scanning with Computed Tomography: Physical Principles, Patient Care, Clinical Applications, and Quality Control, 5th Edition. Written to meet the varied requirements of radiography students and practitioners, this two-color text provides comprehensive coverage of the physical principles of computed tomography and its clinical applications. The clear, straightforward approach is designed to improve your understanding of sectional anatomic images as they relate to computed tomography and facilitate communication between CT technologists and other medical personnel.
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On completion of Principles of Computed Tomography, the participant should be able to:
• State terms synonymous with CT.
• Identify several features of CT Product Data.
• Outline three steps that constitute the CT process.
• Describe the key elements of image formation and image representation.
• Explain how ADC works and describe the characteristics of speed and accuracy.
• List two ways to perform spatial frequency filtering and outline the basics of the convolution technique.
• State what is meant by the term data acquisition and briefly explain two methods of data acquisition.
• State Lambert-Beer’s Law.
• List the advantages and limitations of CT.
• Identify the basic components of a typical data acquisition scheme used in CT scanning.
• Describe the elements of an x-ray generator used in CT.
• State the purpose of the DAS and explain how it works.
• Trace the history of reconstruction techniques.
• State the basic mathematical problem in CT.
• List four operations of a 3D surface display technique.
• Describe three steps in a typical IR process without modeling.
• Define Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its subsets, Machine Learning (MI) and Deep Learning (DL).
• Describe briefly how the trained DL reconstruction is applied in clinical practice.
• Describe the fundamental differences between computer hardware and computer software.
• Describe the characteristics of the CT gantry and the patient couch.
• Describe a typical room layout for a CT scanner.
• Explain the concept of windowing in CT.
• Evaluate the effect of WW and WL on image contrast and image brightness, respectively.
• Identify basic and advanced visualization tools for use in CT.
• Identify several types of phantoms for measuring image quality in CT.
• Discuss factors affecting spatial and contrast resolution in CT.
• Discuss the types, causes and reduction of artifacts in CT.
• State two reasons why the dose in CT is of importance to the CT technologist.
• State the function that describes an arbitrarily shaped dose intensity along the patient axis.
• Describe briefly the basic steps of the CT dose measurement procedure.
ALL TESTS CAN BE TAKEN ONLINE
Purchase your course and use the test key provided to take your test online. There is no extra charge for online testing and you will get immediate results. You can start and stop your test at anytime so you can work at your own pace. Your test key is found on your receipt, under the description of your purchase.
This is a multiple choice, open book test and contains 310 questions.
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