RADT1003

This course provides a basic knowledge of the principles of physics as it pertains to radiation. The x-ray circuit, radiographic equipment, diagnostic x-ray tubes, fluoroscopy units, and an overview of quality control are discussed. Additionally, this course provides fundamental principles of radiographic exposure. Principles of exposure and image production including exposure factors, receptor exposure, differential absorption, spatial resolution, shape distortion, magnification, beam restriction, beam filtration, scatter radiation, grids and exposures factors are discussed. Students learn digital image acquisition and processing, image acquisition errors, quality management, image display and data management.