Sunday, November 2, 2008

Chest X-ray

During chest radiography (aka chest X-ray), X-ray beams penetrate the chest and react on specially sensitized film. Normal pulmonary tissue is radiolucent while abnormalities such as infiltrates, foreign bodies, fluid and tumors appear dense. That is why they are detected through X-rays.

2 comments:

Viresh said...

There are many medical training like ultrasound training been conduct in many schools & colleges. It has a vast career.

Anonymous said...

I did not really know how xrays actually worked so this was cool to read and learn more about this subject.

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