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      X-ray Vision: Diagnostic X-rays and CT Scans
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      X-ray Vision: Diagnostic X-rays and CT Scans book

      BySuzanne Amador Kane, Boris A. Gelman
      BookIntroduction to Physics in Modern Medicine

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      Edition 3rd Edition
      First Published 2020
      Imprint CRC Press
      Pages 80
      eBook ISBN 9781315232089
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      ABSTRACT

      This chapter discusses the frontier of the electromagnetic spectrum: x-ray radiation. Radiographs – x-ray images colloquially called “x-rays” – are two-dimensional shadow images created on photographic films by x-rays whose energy has been partially absorbed by the body organs and tissues. X-ray images are formed on photographic films or in digital detectors by highly penetrating rays of electromagnetic radiation transmitted through the body. In medical physics, the term x-ray is generally used to characterize such photons when they are generated in a continuous spectrum of energies by a device, while photons of specific energies generated by radioactivity are called gamma rays. The way x-rays are generated plays a major role in determining the quality and characteristics of the resulting images. In general, electromagnetic waves are emitted by electric charges when they undergo a change in motion. X-rays are produced when accelerated electrons collide with the atoms of the anode.

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