What are Digital X-Rays?

Digital X-Ray is the new standard in Diagnostic Imaging. By using digital technology the scan time is reduced dramatically and the repeated exposure is minimized. Digital images could be saved on a CD and sent with the patient. Unlike the traditional x-ray, we are able to manipulate the images and perform measurements electronically. That means more information for your treating physician.

Preparing for an X-Ray

For some of the x-rays, the patient might have to change into a gown before the scan.

Digital X-Rays vs. Older Film Based X-Rays

X-ray is the beginning place for identifying or evaluating a range of health concerns. Digital X-ray’s modern technology is easily available to imaging centers because of its low cost. It’s noninvasive, safe, as well as rapidly generates the images we require to be able to diagnose problems efficiently.

Conventional X-rays have actually been around from the early 1900s, using film to capture pictures of the body’s interior structures. With the addition of computer technology, digital radiography has become a lot more efficient, affordable, and an even safer method of generating diagnostic photos.

If you have ever had an actual X-ray taken previously, you have most likely been asked to wear a big lead apron covering to protect the surrounding area of your body from getting X-ray radiation. While conventional X-rays are thought to be rather harmless, electronic X-rays create 80% lower radiation than typical x-rays. This means it is highly improbable you would develop issues from occasional radiation exposure, yet it is even much less likely with the process used in digital X-rays.

The price efficiency of using digital radiography, rather than film, boils down to the fact that large format x-ray film is pricey. If you have owned a 35mm film camera, you will understand that in its pinnacle, Kodak film it was costly to acquire, and then pricey to develop as well.

If you do not have an electronic camera now, it’s most likely because your phone supplies one for you. Yet much like digital cameras, with digital X-ray, you never have to keep count of how many photos you’ve taken. Storage room is essentially limitless since you can transfer images onto a hard disk afterward. The same is true of radiography. With film, it is tough to store and maintain images as they deteriorate in time, but electronic images can be conserved as well as quickly accessed without picture deterioration in the future.

When you’re counting on your doctor to make a precise medical diagnosis, image quality is of importance. Not only does your doctor obtain digital x-ray images within seconds, but the picture can also be quickly resized and expanded for the hard-to-see problems without misshaping or degrading the high quality of the image.

For additional information regarding the benefits of scheduling a digital x-ray, call (630) 416-1300 for affordable x-rays at our convenient Naperville location.

Fox Valley Imaging – Medical Imaging Services – Serving Naperville, Aurora, Warrenville
1971 Gowdey Rd, Naperville, IL 60563