Chapter 23: Mammography
Test Bank
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Soft tissue radiography requires special techniques because of the low _____.
a. image receptor contrast
b. subject contrast
c. part thickness
d. spatial resolution
2. When doing soft tissue radiography, the differential absorption between _____ and ______
must be enhanced.
a. bone, muscle
b. muscle, fluid
c. muscle, fat
d. fat, air
3. In soft tissue radiography, all of the tissues being imaged have similar _____.
a. effective atomic numbers
b. mass densities
c. Compton interaction
d. all of the above
4. The breast tissue tends to be increasingly _____ in older women.
a. fatty
b. dense
c. glandular
d. fibrous
5. About 80% of breast cancer occurs in _____ tissue.
a. epidermal
b. adipose
c. ductal
d. connective
6. A diagnostic mammogram must be able to demonstrate microcalcifications less than _____ in
size.
a. 5000
b. 50
c. 1000
d. 500
7. The American Cancer Society recommends that all women _____ years of age and above
have an annual screening mammogram.
a. 45
b. 50
c. 55
d. 60
8. The American Cancer Society recommends biannual screening mammograms for all women
_____.
a. over age 65
b. age 30-39
c. age 50-59
d. age 40-49
9. It is recommended that women obtain their first baseline mammogram before the age of
_____.
a. thirty
b. forty
c. fifty
d. sixty
10. A dedicated mammography unit should have an automatic adjustable _____ device.
a. grid
b. compression
c. focal spot
d. filter
11. Every dedicated mammography unit is equipped with a _____.
a. low ratio grid
b. high ratio grid
c. 3-phase voltage generator
d. tungsten filter
12. A target of molybdenum or rhodium is preferable in mammography because it reduces the
_____.
a. resolution
b. scatter
c. contrast
d. motion
13. Breast compression has the advantage of lowering _____.
a. patient dose
b. motion blur
c. superimpositions
d. all of the above
14. Breast compression is used to _____ patient dose and _____ focal spot blur.
a. lower, reduce
b. lower, increase
c. raise, reduce
d. raise, increase
15. Breast compression increases _____.
a. contrast resolution
b. spatial resolution
c. motion blur
d. both A and B
16. Mammograms are taken with _____ cassettes.
a. double screen
b. single screen
c. non-screen
d. both A and B
17. The spatial resolution is improved in mammography by always placing the emulsion side of
the film _____ the screen and _____ the tube.
a. away from, away from
b. against, toward
c. against, away from
d. away from, toward
18. Cassettes used in mammography are specially designed with _____.
a. tighter film-screen contact
b. high Z front covers
c. double screens
d. looser spring latches
19. Mammography currently uses _____ film.
a. direct exposure
b. xeroradiography
c. double-emulsion
d. single-emulsion
20. Screening mammography requires _____ view(s) of each breast, whereas diagnostic
mammography requires _____ or more views.
a. 1, 2 or more
b. 2, 2 or more
c. 3, 3 or more
d. 4, 4 or more