Chapter 1

X-radiation

A high-energy radiation produced by the collision of a beam of electrons with a metal target in an x-ray tube is termed _____

dental radiographer

A person who position, exposes and processes dental x-ray film is called _______

radiograph

A picture on a film produced by the passage of x-rays through an object or body is termed __________

X-ray

An _____ is a beam of energy that has the power to penetrate substances and record image shadows on photographic film

Dental radiographs are important in the diagnostics of oral conditions such as tooth decay or bone disease that are unable to be detected by sight or tactical senses.

Discuss importance of dental radiographs

radiation

Indicates a form of energy carried by waves or a stream of particles

Geissler built vacuum tube. Hittorf used vacuum tube to study fluorescence and discovered cathode rays. Crookes discovered cathode rays were streams of charged particles. Lenard discovered cathode rays penetration abilities. Roentgen experimented with all of these things to discover the x-ray.

Summarize the discovery of x-radiation

radiography

The art and science of making radiographs by the exposure of film to x-rays

radiology

The science or study of radiation as used in medicine

dental radiography

_______ is the production of radiographs of the teeth and adjacent structures by the exposure of film to x-rays

Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen

what physicist discovered x-rays