PHOTOGRAPHIC SPOT FILMS AND RADIOGRAPHIC SPOT FILMS

Fluoroscopic examinations can be recorded on television tape at low radiation levels making possible better teaching and training of young radiologists and better service to referring physicians.Important findings can be recorded photographically from the image on the monitoring screen during a subsequent playback of the recorded tape (photographic spot films), at a small cost and with no added radiation to the patient. Photographic spot films on 35 mm. film can be processed in regular automatic x-ray processors, with no special equipment or personnel. These filmstrips are filed in special envelopes within the regular radiographic folder of each patient (Fig. 6).