RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY

1. Secondary protective barrier protect personnel from:

a. Scatter radiation
b. Useful beam
c. Leakage radiation
d. A and C above

2. One of the following devices is only used for personnel monitoring

a. TLD
b. OSL
c. Gieger-Muller counter
d. Ionization Chamber

3. Radiation dose quantity used in conventional radiography is termed:

a. ESD
b. DAP
c. CTDI
d. Glandular dose

4. Personnel radiation dose limit:

a. 50mSv per annum
b. 20mSv for average of five years
c. 5mSv per annum
d. 1mSv for average of five years

5. System of radiation protection includes:

a. Justification of practice
b. Limitation of doses
 c. Optimization of protection
d. All of the above

6. Medical exposure
a. Exposure incur by patients as part of their own medical or dental
diagnosis or treatment
b. Exposure incur by persons, other than those occupationally exposed,
knowingly while voluntarily helping in the support and comfort of patients
c. Exposure incur by volunteers in a programme of biomedical research
involving their exposure
d. All of the above

7. Radiological quantities include:

a. Activity
b. Roentgen
c. Absorbed dose
d. Effective dose
8. The following materials are used for radiation protection:
a. Plastic
b. Lead
c. Glass
d. Metals
9. In Radiation protection practice, a Radiographer is designated as
a. Patient
b. Public
c. Occupationally exposed person
d. None of the above

10. Radiation Protection is to…..

a. Reduce the probability of stochastic effects of x-rays
b. Prevent the occurrence of deterministic effect of x-ray exposures
 c. All of the above
d. None of the above

11. Radiation Protection officer is

a. A Radiographer/physicist
b. An employee of the hospital
c. A member of the Radiation protection committee
d. All of the above

12. The film badge consists of 3 parts namely:

a. Film pocket, Metal Filter and Plastic Film holder
b. Film sheet, Metal Filter and Plastic film holder
c. Film pocket, Metal filter and Iron film holder
d. Film, developer and Fixer

13. A declared Pregnant Radiation worker should:

a. Be stopped from coming to Radiation arear
b. Be provided with two personal monitoring devices
c. A and B above
d. None of the above

14. Filmbadge contains ----------

a. Photographic emulsion
b. Lead Apron
c. CT
d. X-rays
15. Dosimetry is a science by which radiation dose is determined by
a. calculation and body
b. Measurement and radiation
c. Calculation and measurements
d. False

16. Occupational exposure measurement permits prompt application of control to

a. increase radiation
b. Limit exposure
c. Interact exposure
d. Increase exposure

17. A good monitoring device Should be

a. Expensive
b. Dollarized
c. Reliable and accurate
d. Fashionable
18. A monitoring device should be sensitive to the
a. Manufacturer
b. Radiographer
c. Designer
d. Type of radiation to be monitored

19. In dosimetry,TLD means

a. Thermoluminescent dosage meter
b. Thermoluminescent Dosimeter?
c. Thermoluminescent dosimetry
d. Thermoluminescent electrometer

20. ALARA means

a. Always leave annual radiation accurate
b. As low as Reasonably Achievable
c. As low as recently achievable
d. As low as Radiation achievable
21. Occupational exposure is exposure incurred

a. At work

b. At the public space

c. At the ward

d. All of the above

22. One of these is cardinal rules for radiation protection

a. Distance

b. Justification

c. Optimization of practice

d. None of the above

23. One of these is physical Law of radiation protection

a. Inverse square law

b. Inverse circle law

c. Borh’s law

d. None of the above

24. The degree of exposure reduction depends on the following physical Characteristics
except

a. Atomic number

b. Density

c. KvP

d. None of the above

25. One of the following is a shielding material used in a fixed X-ray imaging facilty

a. Barium sulphate

b. Thick Concrete

c. Brim stone

d. All of the above

26. One of the following is the appropriate method of wearing a typical personnel Radiation
monitoring device

a. The device should be worn outside the lead Apron

b. The device should be worn on the neck

c. The device should be worn only at Radiotherapy unit

d. None of the above

27. For a gonad shield to be effective in protecting the patient

a. The lead must be 5mm thick

b. Used when gonad is 5cm to collimated area

c. All of the above

d. None of the above

28. The amount of Radiation reaching any place depends on

a. Quantity of Radiation leaving the source

b. Quality of radiation leaving the source

c. The distance from the source

 d. All of the above

29. The primary barriers to radiation include one of the following

a. The walls

b. Lead glass

c. All of the above

d. None of the above

30. Symptom of Deterministic effect of radiation include one of the following

a. Leukamia

b. Cancer

c. Reddening of skin

d. All of the above

31. The following are classes of stochastic effect of Radiation except

a. Cancer

b. Hereditary disorders

c. Acute radiation syndrome

d. None of the above

32. You have a friend who had constantly been exposed to high doses of radiation and he
come down with eye lens injury, what type of radiation effect would you classify it

a. Deterministic effect

b. Stochastic effect

c. All of the above

d. None of the above

33. One of these is Radiation safety adviser

a. Radiographers

b. Radiologist

c. State agency
 d. None of the above

34. Radiation survey instruments are used for one of these purposes

a. Personnel monitoring devices

b. Detect and measure radiation

c. Locate radiation source

d. All of the above

35. One of these instruments is radiation survey instrument

a. Film batch

b. Densitometer

c. Ionization chamber

d. All o the above

36. The instrument used to measure patient receiving diagnostic isotopes is

a. Cutie – pie

b. Ionization champber

c. None of the above

d. Option A & B is correct

37. Proportional counter is an instrument used in Nuclear medicine, which can detect lost
Radio-isotope

a. True

b. False

c. None of the above

d. Option A is correct

38. In Radiation protection, areas where a person is likely to receive an effective whole body
dose is called

a. Controlled area

b. Brachytherapy area
 c. Radiation monitoring area

d. All of the above

39. what does this sign post denote in Radiography department in

the hospital

a. No go area

b. Controlled area

c. Supervised area

d. Radiation dispensing area

40. The surrounding environment to Radiology department in the hospital can also be
referred to as

a. Neighboring area

b. supervised area

c. uncontrolled area

d. controlled area

41. the following are Radiation Regulatory agency in Nigeria except

a. Nigeria Nuclear Regulatory Authority

b. Radiographers Regulatory Board of Nigeria

c. International Atomic Energy Agency

d. None of the bove

42. Because Health is a concurrent list, therefore each state is permitted to design their own
control for Radiation Protection

a. True

b. False

c. B is correct

d. None of the above

43. Radiation dose limits are not applied to medical exposure

a. True

b. False

c. A is not correct

d. None of the above

44. The estimated amount of pulic exposure is

a. 50 mSv

b. 100 mSv

c. 1 mSv

d. None of the above

45. The acronym ICRP means

a. International chamber on Radiation protection and measurement

b. International Corrupt Regulatory Practices

c. All of the above

d. None of the above

46. In application of Dose limit standard, occupational exposure per year is estimated to be

a. 50 mSv

b. 100 mSv

c. 1.5 mSv

d. None of the above

47. One of the following is the responsibility of Radiation safety officer

a. Emergency reporting officer

b. Appointment of newly qualified Radiographers to practice

c. Establishment of new Radiation monitoring team in the state

d. All of the above

48. One of the following is the responsibilities of Radiation Safety Adviser

a. Personnel monitoring

b. Equipment monitoring

c. Carry out annual surveys

d. All of the above

49. One or all of the following can serve as Radiation Safety Adviser

a. Trained and licensed Nurse

b. Radiologist

c. Radiographer

d. Trained and license medical physicist

e. All of the above

50. The measurement of the amount of radiation dose received by occupationally exposed
individuals is called

a. Staff survey

b. Personnel monitoring

c. Radiation protection

d. All of the above

51. The yerar The First Radiation dose limit was set

a. 1895

b. 1924

c. 1902

d. 1925

52. The most economical and affordable of personnel monitoring device is

a. Film Badge

b. TLD

c. Proportional counter
 d. All of the above

53. One of the following is the characteristics of a Film badge

a. Can read, X-ray, gamma and beta radiation

b. Can accurately read from 10mrem – 500rem

c. All of the above

d. None of the above

54. One of the following are advantages of Film badge

a. Lightweight, portable and temporally legal record

b. Portable, differentiate between scatter and primary beam

c. Durable and cannot detect direction of ray

d. All of the above