Question

• What is the importance of knowing the steps involved in creating an image? Why can’t the technologist just place the patient under the collimator light and press the exposure button?
• How many different types of X-ray machines will you be working with as a student technologist or as a technologist? What should you expect to be similar, and what may be different?

Answer 1

It is really important to know the steps involved in creating an image because knowing how it forms and what are the pros and cons of the steps involved. the factors which can be known by the steps of creating image under x- ray.

a). Harm to the patient's body by the intensity of x-rays .

b). Exposure time to the patient's body and operating time of machine.

c). Quality of the image formed.

d). Different scientific process combines to give you a image inside the body.

e). Different body part requires different x-ray machines. which has different mechanism for every body part

and can only be known by the knowing the steps involved while creating the image.

Types of x-ray machines i would love to work as a technologist

Standard Computed Tomography

Kidney, Ureter, and Bladder X-ray

Teeth and bones X-rays

Chest X-rays

Lungs X-rays

Abdomen X-rays

similarity expectation will be that basic process of passing x-rays and creating image will be same for all, but difference will be that, for different organs different intensity of x-rays will be used so also the image resolution for the different body parts. harms done to the body will be proportional to the intensity of x-rays and vulnerability of the different organs.