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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Fig. 2. Normal Kidney Outline—Left Kidney. compression; third, preparation of the pa-tient; fourth, control, real control, of the pa-tients respiration. Kidney plates should be clear, soft andsharp, suggesting under-exposure ratherthan over-exposure. No black should any-where appear on the plate. Such a plate can-not be made if the tube is excited by a cur-rent of high voltage. In actual practice I use^ 3 to 3^ inch spark gap, 35 milliamperes. tube-stand be attached to the table, movingfreely and easily at the side. With this typeof table the tube-stand can be fixed so rigidthat there is no possibility of any movementof the patient altering the position or angleof the tube. It is cjuite essential that the endof the compression cylinder be ec^uipped witha convex aluminum cap. This sinks deep intothe soft parts and displaces denser material;it also sometimes forces aside gas which may Technique of Roentgen Examination of Kidneys 117 be present in the colon. If the diameter ofthe cylin

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