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.
As a result, the term X-ray is metonymically used to refer to a radiographic image produced using this method, in addition to the method itself. Since the wavelengths of hard X-rays are similar to the size of atoms they are also useful for determining crystal structures by X-ray crystallography. X-ray microscopic analysis, which uses electromagnetic radiation in the soft X-ray band to produce images of very small objects. 2  X-ray fluorescence, a technique in which X-rays are generated within a specimen and detected.