Admin_NHT Staff asked 6 years ago X-ray is a medical test conducted by using a radiograph. Chest X-ray performed to study heart, lungs, blood vessels and bones present in chest cavity. X-ray is the oldest and most used technique to identify the abnormalities within the body.
- Uses:-Chest X-ray is helpful to diagnose the symptoms like difficulty in breath, continuous cough, chest pain, chest injury, fever. Also chest x-ray helpful in the diagnosis of the treatment pneumonia, heart failure, emphysema, lung cancer, the position of medical device, fluid collection around the lung, or other medical conditions.
- Procedure: – The radiologist asks the patient to remove all metallic accessories and wear loose clothes. A pregnant woman must have to tell about their pregnancy to a doctor before doing an x-ray procedure. X-ray radiation from radio waves, the radio wave passes through the body and records the image on the photographic frame. Most of the X ray-chest two views are taken for that radiologist ask the patient to stand against the recording plate and then the patient chest press against the image plate. The radiologist asks the patient to hold the breath for a few seconds white taking X-ray. A chest X-ray is not a more than 20-minute procedure.