BIOC32H3 Lecture Notes - Scoliosis, Spermiogenesis, Osteoporosis
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Noninvasive techniques using radioisotopes, radiation, magnetic fields to produce images of internal structures. Gives detailed info about internal systems and structures. High energy radiation that can penetrate living tissues. Not all projected x-rays arrive at the film. Some are absorbed or deflected as they pass through the body. Resistance to x-ray penetration is called radiodensity (least radiodensity) air, fat, liver, blood, muscle, bone (most radiodensity) Bone becomes white, less dense things are black. Used to be called cat (computerized axial tomography) Uses a single x-ray source rotating around the body. X-ray strikes a sensor monitored by a computer. Digital subtraction angiography (dsa) for blood flow in organs like brain, heart, lungs, kidneys. Xrays taken before and after radiopaque dye used and computers subtracts details from both. Xrays rotate around person, less radiation, faster. Surrounds body with magnetic field, 3000x stronger then earth. Affects protons, line up along magnetic lines. Protons absorb energy with proper frequencypulse ends=energy released.