ATTRIBUTES OF X-RAYS-CANCER-LESSON 116
More than a few attributes of x-rays are helpful to physicians in the analysis and treatment of disease. Capacity to be photographed: If beams of x-ray are focussed on a photographic plate the silver coating of the plate will change into black in color due to the chemical reaction of it on silver. Radiolucency and Radiopacity: Ability to penetrate different substances to varying degrees. X-rays pass through the different types of substances in the human body such as calcium material in bones, water particle in the blood and lymph vessels, fat materials, muscles, and air space in the lungs, so as to give the image of that to diagnose. Radiolucency is the characteristic feature in which x-rays penetrate through lighter substances in the body like air in the lung and water in the blood, and muscles and form a black image. Radiopacity is the characteristic feature of the x-ray in which it cannot penetrate through densest hard substances like bone and metals inside the body and form...