CT Registry Review vocabulary

what is the normal range in adults for blood urea nitrogen (BUN)?

___ is a form of streak artifact caused by insufficient number of views (data samples) obtained during data acquisition

What is cerebra blood flow (CBF)?

what is the normal range of CBF in gray matter?

what is cerebra blood volume(CBV)?

what is the normal range for CBV?

______ is the ability of a CT system to detect an object with a small difference in linear attenuation

___ is the quantification of the volume and dinsity of calium within the coronary arteries used to indicate a patient's risk of suffering a cardiac event

___ is a mathematical filtration used by the CT system to remove blurring artifact during the back-projection method of imag reconstruction

what is the normal range for Creatinine?

what is the CT dose index (CTDI)?

___ is a streak artifact that occurs at the interface between a high-density object and the lower-attenuation material surrounding it

___ is a cone beam correction algorithm utilized to overcome potential attenuation calculation errors from the divergent beam of MSCTsystems

____ is the midpoint of a slice sensitivity profile (SSP), where the effective section width for a ct acquisition is determined

what is the normal range for glomerular filtration rate (GFR)

Window level controls what?

window width controls what?

routine transit time for barium sulfate through the GI tract is typically ______

___- portion of the x-ray beam that falls on a single detector

___- represents degree of broadening that occurs along the z-axis during volumetric data acquisition.