INTRODUCTION TO THE CONVENTIONAL
RADIOLOGY
X-rays were discovered by Roentgen in Würzburg, Germany in 1895. He concludes that there is X-rays with the properties of passing through certain bodies, impressing photosensitive emulsions and causing fluorescence of certain substances.
Since the publication of this discovery, many experiments have been carried out throughout the world and their medical application will soon develop.
Conventional radiology is the exploration of internal anatomical structures using the image provided by an X-ray beam passing through the subject. She has a leading diagnostic interest in many areas of medicine despite the emergence of new techniques (MRI, CT, ultrasound). It requires a remote-controlled table, a control panel, an X-ray source, a film and fluorescent screens. The patient is placed between the source (X-ray tube) and the receiving film, depending on the nature of the tissue traversed, the X-rays will be more or less attenuated and will ultimately give a contrasting radiological image.
The quality of the radiological image determines the interpretation by the doctor. Depending on the radiographic part, black areas corresponding to air and white areas corresponding to bone structures are observed. The contours of organs, normal or pathological fluid areas, foreign bodies are identified
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