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Radiography
Projectional radiography of the knee in a modern X-ray machine
SystemMusculoskeletal
SubdivisionsInterventional, Nuclear, Therapeutic, Paediatric
Significant diseasesCancer, bone fractures
Significant testsscreening tests, X-ray, CT, MRI, PET, bone scan, ultrasonography, mammography, fluoroscopy
SpecialistRadiographer

Radiography is an imaging technique using X-rays, gamma rays, or similar ionizing radiation and non-ionizing radiation to view the internal form of an object. Applications of radiography include medical ("diagnostic" radiography and "therapeutic") and industrial radiography. Similar techniques are used in airport security, (where "body scanners" generally use backscatter X-ray). To create an image in conventional radiography, a beam of X-rays is produced by an X-ray generator and it is projected towards the object. A certain amount of the X-rays or other radiation are absorbed by the object, dependent on the object's density and structural composition. The X-rays that pass through the object are captured behind the object by a detector (either photographic film or a digital detector). The generation of flat two-dimensional images by this technique is called projectional radiography. In computed tomography (CT scanning), an X-ray source and its associated detectors rotate around the subject, which itself moves through the conical X-ray beam produced. Any given point within the subject is crossed from many directions by many different beams at different times. Information regarding the attenuation of these beams is collated and subjected to computation to generate two-dimensional images on three planes (axial, coronal, and sagittal) which can be further processed to produce a three-dimensional image.

A medical radiograph of a skull

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Tomosynthesis

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Radiological Society of North America

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Nondestructive testing

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