1. Acronyms

2. A SEQUENCE OF COMPUTER OPERATIONS FOR ACCOMPLISHING A SPECIFIC TASK Algorithm

3. HAVING NO REAL OR APPARENT FORM Amorphous

4. DETECTOR ELEMENT; PART OF THE THIN FILM TRANSISTOR DEL

5. LOOK UP TABLE: IS A HISTOGRAM TO PROPERLY ESTABLISH GRAY SCALE VALUE LUT

6. DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY DQE

7. MECHANISM IN WHICH DATA IS REPRESENTED IN A PHYSICAL MEDIUM Analog

8. INFORMATION STORED IN ELECTRONIC MEDIUM Digital

9. PHOTOSTIMULABLE PHOSPHOR PLATE: PLATE THAT STORES X-RAY ENGERY PSP

10. ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTER A to D Converter

11. CHARGED –COUPLED DEVICE CCD

12. CONVERTS X-RAYS TO LIGHT (CESIUM IODIDE) Scintillator

13. TURNS LIGHT TO AN ELECTRIC SIGNAL Photodiode

14. A DEVICE THAT ABSORBS X-RAYS AND CREATES ELECTRIC CHARGES Photoconductor

15. EXPRESSION OF HOW CLEARLY A VERY FAINT OBJECT APPEARS IN AN IMAGE Signal to noise ratio

16. AS LOW AS REASONABLY ACHIEVABLE ALARA

17. THIN FILM TRANSISTOR: TFT

18. PICTURE ELEMENT Pixel

19. VOLUME ELEMENT Voxel

20. COMBINATION OF ROWS AND COLUMNS OF PIXELS THAT MAKE UP DIGITAL IMAGE Matrix

21. SCANNED PROJECTION RADIOGRAPHY SPR