Radiological Agents Form

Instructions and help about Radiological Agents

all right all right Nation today we're going to talk about contrast agents in X-ray and CT Imaging what are the different types of contrast agents how are they used make sure it's state of the end or see some misnomers or things that a lot of people still believe that aren't true about contrast agents so contrast agents are adding material in order to increase the anatomical contrast in your X-ray and ctma it's that simple it's just something that we add to the body while we're taking the X-ray and the C2 image such that we can visualize the anatomy more easily and there is inherent contrast in your X-ray images especially in bony Anatomy you can really see the contrast very well you can see high resolution structures very well in the Bony Anatomy because of the relative High Z of the Bony Anatomy right in lung cancer for instance you can see that very well there's very good contrast in your X-ray Imaging between background of more air type tissue and cancerous tissue in the case of lu