A radiographer is a person who is trained to take X-rays. someone whose job is to take X-ray photographs of the inside of people's bodies, or who treats people for illnesses using an X-ray machine
A diagnostic radiographer helps to diagnose disease by taking x-ray pictures and scans
The member of the health care team who takes x-rays and scans (diagnostic radiographer) or gives you radiotherapy (therapeutic radiographer)
A radiograph (also known commonly as plain film or x-ray) is an image obtained by shining high energy light or x-rays through the body to a detector which may either be photographic film or a photo-sensitive plate in newer digital image systems The body absorbs different amounts of radiation depending on the density of the tissue Dense tissues such as bone absorbs more radiation and appears light, and less dense tissues such as lung absorb less radiation and appears dark The image obtained of a body part therefore represents a shadowgram Disease states often alter the absorption of a given tissue For instance, pneumonia increases the density of lung and results in a lighter shadow on the radiograph corresponding to the area of infection Conversely a fracture decreases the absorption of bone and is perceived as a dark line at the fracture site
A picture produced by the Röntgen rays upon a sensitive surface, photographic or fluorescent, especially a picture of opaque objects traversed by the rays
A permanent image, typically on film produced by ionizing radiation Sometimes called an 'X-Ray' after the most common source of image-producing radiation
An "X-Ray" An image produced by photographing artificially generated radiation which passes through visually opaque matter Only dense objects, such as bone, are normally visible on radiographs, although soft tissue images can be produced thr ough special techniques
An image or picture produced upon a sensitive surface, as of a photographic plate, by some form of radiation other than light, as the Röntgen rays, radium rays, etc