Re: Digital X-Ray Can Scan Body in 13 Seconds

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

An x-ray image shows objects due to differences in

density.  Water has a density of 1.00, a diamond has a

density of 3.51, graphite of 2.25, and bone of 1.7-2.0





--- Douglas and Shirley Jackson <g2v13a@SWBELL.NET>

wrote:

> My I ask the dumb question of the day ?????

> 

> Can you actually see the diamonds (as is implied) in

> this x-ray ?

> 

> I have seen many foreign object x-rays of the

> abdomen over the years and 

> ... the rings show nicely, but the diamonds would

> have been missed 

> without the metal ring.

> . . .





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-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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