Angina may feel like pressure or squeezing in your chest. The pain also can occur in your shoulders, arms, neck, jaw, or back. Angina pain may even feel like indigestion. Angina isn't a disease; it's a symptom of an underlying heart problem.
Uses of X-rays. The main use of X-rays is in medicine. A comman application is in the form of X-ray machines, which take photos of a patientâs body. If an arm or leg were broken for example, then this limb would be put in front of the X-ray with a piece of photographic film behind.
Much of the attention has focused on computed tomography, or CT, scans which use hundreds of X-rays to create detailed three-dimensional images that enable doctors to see things previously visible only through a biopsy or surgery. Like X-rays and PET scans, CT scans use ionizing radiation, which can damage DNA and cause cancer. Two other imaging technologies, MRI scans and ultrasound, do not use radiation. CTs are used for a plethora of reasons, among them finding kidney stones, evaluating chest pain and detecting tumors or other abnormalities.