Pneumomediastinum occurs more in young people because their mediastinum is made of loose ... You may receive: A chest x-ray, which detects 90% of cases A bronchoscopy to check whether there ...

Finally, each pneumothorax was classified as either ‘true clinical tension’ (with haemodynamic instability), ‘radiologically described tension’ (with no clinical signs of tension but mediastinal shift ...

The "bone" is actually a galactic center filament, and it's about 230 light-years long. Have you ever had an X-ray taken of your bones? Well, so has the Milky Way. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

The first X-ray pictures of a mysterious sphere that some people claim was sent to Earth by aliens have been released. The object was reportedly spotted in March zig-zagging through the sky over ...

He said: "This was just a standard chest X-ray, but it revealed something the patient didn't even know about." Previous research highlighted how a worrying number of people are avoiding important ...

The training material on this webpage is available for download. The purpose of the material is to train the trainers, who are hospital personnel e.g. medical physicists/radiation protection officers, ...

She explained that the firing squad marksmen locked in on a target placed by a medical professional who had used a stethoscope and chest X-ray to pinpoint the location of Mahdi’s heart.

Adverse effects from radiation dose absorbed in diagnostic practice are rare. For example, the radiation dose absorbed from a simple X ray examination such as a chest X ray (radiograph) or an X ray of ...

These tests can include: a chest X-ray or CT scan of the chest to view your lungs blood tests to check for an infection sputum tests to help find the cause of infection pulse oximetry to measure ...