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| X-ray Radiography |
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| X-rays and scanners help doctors to learn a great deal about the body as they reveal defects and abnormalities and thus contribute to diagnosis. |
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| It was in 1895, a German Physicist, Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovered the X-rays and since then radiology has played a major role in the diagnosis, prognosis and management of various disorders. |
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| X-rays have a remarkable ability to penetrate matter. They help to provide detailed images of dense parts of the body like bones. This method employs the use of a single barrage of x-rays. A burst of x-radiation is aimed at the patients naked body part. The x-rays pass through the body and fall on a film containing X-ray sensitive emulsion. This producers a photographic image called Radiograph, which is a 2 dimensional shadow image of the interior of the body part. |
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| Bilateral Pulmonary Tuberculosis |
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| Conventional x-rays compress the body image onto a flat sheet of film, often resulting in an overlap of organs and this makes diagnosis difficult. Also, X-rays do not differentiate between subtle differences in tissue density. |
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