Chest X-rays - Mayo Clinic
2024年6月20日 · Chest X-rays produce images of your heart, lungs, blood vessels, airways, and the bones of the chest and spine. Chest X-rays can also reveal fluid in or around your lungs or air surrounding a lung. If you go to a health professional or the emergency room with chest pain, a chest injury or shortness of breath, you will typically get a chest X-ray.
Chest X-Ray (CXR): What It Is, What To Expect & Results - Cleveland Clinic
A chest X-ray uses radiation to create an image of your heart, lungs and bones. A chest X-ray can diagnose health conditions like pneumonia or COPD.
Chest radiograph | Radiology Reference Article - Radiopaedia.org
2024年6月25日 · The chest radiograph (also known as the chest x-ray or CXR) is anecdotally thought to be the most frequently-performed radiological investigation globally although no published data is known to corroborate this.
Chest X-Ray: Purpose, Procedure, and Risks - Healthline
2024年2月16日 · What Is a Chest X-Ray? An X-ray is an imaging test that uses small amounts of radiation to produce pictures of the organs, tissues, and bones of the body. When focused on the chest, it can...
Chest X-Ray - Johns Hopkins Medicine
A chest X-ray is an imaging test that uses X-rays to look at the structures and organs in your chest. It can help your healthcare provider see how well your lungs and heart are working. Certain heart problems can cause changes in your lungs.
Chest X-ray (Radiography) - RadiologyInfo.org
The chest x-ray is the most commonly performed diagnostic x-ray examination. A chest x-ray produces images of the heart, lungs, airways, blood vessels and the bones of the spine and chest. An x-ray exam helps doctors diagnose and treat medical conditions.
Chest X-ray: Why It's Done, What to Expect and Results
2020年1月23日 · A chest X-ray is a medical test that is used to visualize the bones, organs and other structures inside the chest. A wide variety of healthcare providers, from primary care doctors to surgeons, use chest X-rays to check the health and functioning of the heart, lungs and ribs.
Chest X-Ray - American Heart Association
2022年12月7日 · A chest X-ray is a picture of the heart, lungs and chest bones. But it doesn’t show the inside structures of the heart. The American Heart Association explains chest x-rays and answers common questions.
Chest X-Ray - American Lung Association
2024年11月20日 · A chest X-ray is an imaging test that can take a picture of the lungs, heart, blood vessels, airways, ribs, and diaphragm. Your healthcare provider may order a chest X-ray if you are experiencing symptoms like a chronic cough, chest pain, are coughing up blood, have a fever, or shortness of breath.
Chest X-Ray - Harvard Health
2023年3月24日 · Doctors have used x-rays for over a century to see inside the body in order to diagnose a variety of problems, including cancer, fractures, and pneumonia. During this test, you usually stand in front of a photographic plate while a machine sends x-rays, a type of radiation, through your body.