X-Rays

X-Rays are special black and white pictures that use radiation to see things like bones or lungs inside your body. X-Rays are taken for many reasons, but usually they are needed to see if a bone is broken, or to see if your lungs are healthy. You will follow the technologist to a room with a table in the middle. You will sit or lie down on that table. It might be cold and hard.

The X-Ray machine is like a big camera attached to the wall or ceiling in the room. This big camera can move. The technologist will put the camera near the part of your body that needs the picture, but it will not touch you.

Then he or she will ask you to hold still while he or she goes to the corner of the room to press the button to take the picture. Sometimes you will need more than one picture of the same thing from different sides.

If you have any questions or are scared, just ask the technologist, they will be happy to answer your questions. The whole thing usually takes 20 - 30 minutes if you listen and follow instructions.

If you have any questions before you come in, please call Fletcher Allen Radiology at (802) 847-3593.