Identifier: americanjournroen08ameruoft (find matches)
Title: The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Radium Society American Roentgen Ray Society
Subjects: Radiotherapy X-rays
Publisher: Springfield, Ill. C.C. Thomas
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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- be resolved, the extraneousshadows excluded, and the relative positionof these cross sections appreciated.
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Fig. I. Normal Pelvis. Note the optical cross sections of the isthmus and fundus of the uterus. below that point. The image of an irregularbody will be represented by a series of op-tical cross sections at the point of tangencyof the projecting rays. For instance, the im-age of the uterus, four months pregnant, isrepresented only by the cross section of itsenlarged cervical or supracervical portion(the isthmus) and by the shadow of the an-terior surface of the neck just behind thepubis where it curves upward and extendsinto the abdominal cavity, while the uppermargin of the body of the uterus is lost in Our experience is obviously too limited togive an exhaustive exposition of the signifi-cance of the shadows seen. We have, how-ever, tentatively reached certain conclusionswhich may be of value in the further studyof this branch of roentgenographic work. It appears that the normal pelvis is rathereasily and regularly freed of all intestinalcoils with the exception of that portion ofthe

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