What kind of examination does a chest X-ray cost? How much does it cost?

A chest X-ray will mainly look for abnormalities in the heart, liver and lungs, and the most important thing is to detect tuberculosis. A chest X-ray usually costs about 100 to 200 yuan, but the charging standards vary from hospital to hospital. In addition, after a chest X-ray examination, if there are local lesions, a local enhanced CT scan may be performed, which usually costs about one thousand yuan.

Chest X-ray uses the penetrating, fluorescent and photographic effects of X-rays to form an image of the human body on the screen. Due to differences in density and thickness of human tissue, when X-rays penetrate the human body Different tissues absorb X-rays to different degrees, so the amount of X-rays reaching the screen is different, forming images with different black and white contrasts, which provide a basis for doctors' diagnosis.

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As X-ray equipment continues to improve, its radiation dose is getting smaller and smaller, and chest X-ray examinations are generally Within ten seconds, the harm to the human body is very small and can basically be ignored.

However, because children are at the peak of growth and development, their cells divide actively and are much more sensitive than adults. The younger they are, the more sensitive they are (embryonic tissue is more sensitive to rays), which will cause damage to some body cells. , if these damaged cells fail to repair themselves (or may be repaired abnormally), they will remain in the body, like a "ticking time bomb."

In the presence of low immunity or cancer-promoting factors, it begins to replicate crazily and becomes a cancer focus. Therefore, the more radiation examinations are performed, the greater the probability of inducing cancer. Far-aftereffects can be induced decades into the future after their radiological examination.

Try to use X-ray examination instead of chest X-ray. The voltage and current used in chest X-rays are much weaker than those used in X-rays. Due to the weak intensity, the rays cannot penetrate the human body as quickly as during X-rays. Therefore, the time it takes to pass through the human body is relatively longer, and the dose absorbed by the human body is also larger. Moreover, the clarity and accuracy of chest X-ray are not as good as those of X-ray.

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