Key Terms

1. CCD – Charged Coupled Device
2. CMOS – Complementary-Metal-OxydeSemiconductor
3. PSP – Photostimulable Phosphor
4. Analog – continuous data
5. Digital – discrete data
6. Pixel – discrete data point
7. Bit – binary digit
8. Byte – eight-bit word
9. DICOM – Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine