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CANCER-DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES-LESSON 115

X-rays are used in a variety of ways to detect pathological conditions. In dentistry x-rays are commonly used to diagnose to locate cavities in teeth. Further specialities use x-rays commonly are gastroenterology, neurology, gynecology, and endocrinology, and osteology. Contrast Studies: In x-ray film, the likely variations in the thickness of body tissues create different outline images on the x-ray film. On the other hand when x-rays get ahead of two nearby divisions made up of materials of the identical density. Such as the digestive organs in the abdomen, their images cannot be notable on the film on the screen. It is obligatory followed by to infuse a dissimilar medium called contrast medium into the structure or solution to envisage as a negative mark on the thick contrast medium. CT or Computerized Tomography scan or CAT or Computer-Aided Tomography Scan: This is one of the avant-garde techniques in radiologic analysis. The CT scans are very much receptive to find out b