What risks are conducting an X-ray?

In carrying out an X-ray the human body is exposed to minimal radiation. This technique is subject to strict controls, both medical equipment and techniques for implementation, which seek to reduce the exposure time, the amount of radiation, and use the type of radiation with lower risk.

However, the X-ray exposure is at risk and therefore should only be performed when necessary x-rays, and avoid repetition is not justified. This risk is higher for the embryo and fetus, so pregnant women should not be x-rays. Read the full story

What is a radiograph (Rx)?

Radiography, consists in obtaining an image of the anatomic area that is x, and the internal organs of the same, for printing on a photographic plate in a minimal amount of radiation that passes through the area of the body .

Each type of tissue in the body let in different amounts of this radiation, so the board is impressed with varying intensity in each zone, depending on the tissue in front, allowing us to get a picture of the organs (heart, lungs, kidneys, digestive tract, etc..) and tissues (bone, cysts, masses of tissue …) in that area.

Looking at the x-ray, and knowing the image to take a radiograph, you can identify images that help the diagnosis (cysts, tumors, increases or decreases in size of organs, broken bones …).

For the X-ray the patient is placed between the source emitting radiation and the photographic plate. Read the full story

Nuclear medicine is a specialized area of radiology that uses very small amounts of radioactive materials, or radiopharmaceuticals, to examine the role and structure of an organ. The generation of nuclear medicine imaging is a combination of many different disciplines, including chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer technology and medicine. This branch of radiology is often used to help diagnose and treat abnormalities very early in the progression of a disease, a thyroid cancer. Read the full story