{"id":47605,"date":"2017-07-24T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imv-imaging.com\/2017\/07\/how-do-you-look-at-your-x-rays\/"},"modified":"2024-06-19T11:34:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T11:34:45","slug":"how-do-you-look-at-your-x-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imv-imaging.com\/en\/2017\/07\/how-do-you-look-at-your-x-rays\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you look at your X-rays?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Check out below: How do you look at your X-rays?<\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n

How to read an X-ray<\/h4>\n

(written by Kat Evans BSc (Hons) Radiography)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

During a busy day within a practice we often forget to take the time to consider how to properly look at the images we create while undertaking radiography or other imaging modalities. It is important to accurately read the images that we produce in order to get the full amount of information from them.<\/p>\n

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Sadly while we often carefully consider the location of a digital X-ray processor to ensure that it’s in a good location for processing X-ray, that placement is rarely good for reading the resulting images. Normally in a human hospital, or veterinary referral hospital, X-rays are read in their own viewing area because to read an x-ray accurately takes time, and this is best done in a location where you can concentrate. We have all got used to the idea that to do a good ultrasound scan you need a quiet, dark location where you can sit and dedicate full concentration to the task at hand and this is the same for reading a radiographic study.<\/p>\n

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The ideal location should be where you can sit down, turn off the lights, and work quietly for 5-10 minutes while carefully checking each image. You don’t want light from a window reflecting on the monitor, or to be interrupted while checking each image. It can be worth having a checklist of the things you want to go through.As you gain experience you won’t need to use the list as much, but it can be good to have to refer too.
 
A basic checklist would include:<\/p>\n

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