A chest X-ray is an outpatient procedure. You won’t need to stop taking any medications before the procedure, and you’ll be able to drive yourself to and from your appointment.

Your X-ray will take no more than 10 to 15 minutes. You’ll have to remove all of your clothes and jewelry from the waist up, and wear a hospital gown. And you have to stand very still while you ...

A chest X-ray does not directly show pulmonary embolism. However, it may help a doctor rule out health problems that cause similar symptoms, such as pneumonia and some heart conditions.

A deep-learning model using information from a single chest X-ray reliably predicted atherosclerotic CVD risk and statin eligibility when compared with a common risk calculator, researchers ...

Current X-ray examinations capture only 20 percent of cases of lung cancer, researcher say. With modern ultralow-dose CT, the radiologists hit the bull’s eye 90 per cent of the time.

A chest X-ray shows an image of the chest, including the heart, lungs, and bone structures. Although these X-rays can provide valuable information about the heart, they do not show images of the ...

To compare bedside transthoracic echocardiography with chest x-ray, the researchers, led by Yiju Teresa Liu, MD, also at George Washington University, looked at 28 patients who underwent catheter ...