What are 3 radiological procedures used for diagnosing pneumonia?

 

Pneumonia is an infection that outrage the air sacs in one or both lungs. The air sacs can be filled with fluid or purulent material hence causing a cough with phlegm or pus, fever, chills and breathing difficulties. Some of the symptoms are;

• When breathing or coughing one can have chest pains.
• Fatigue.
• Lower body temperature than normal in people with weak immune system and the older adults of above 65 years.
• Nausea, vomiting or diarrhea.
• Phlegm is produced when coughing.
• Shortness of breath.
• Confusion or changes in mental awareness.
• Fever, sweating and shaking chills.

Some of the radiological procedures are;

• Chest Radiograph- is also known as a chest X-ray, it uses very little doze of ionizing radiation to produce pictures of the chest inside and is used to diagnose shortness of breath, persistent cough, fever, chest pain or injury.
• High-resolution Computed Tomography- is a technique whereby thin-slice chest images are gotten with excellent lung detail that are perfect for assessment of diffuse interstitial lung disease.
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging- is a medical imaging technique which uses a magnetic field and computer generated radio waves to obtain detailed images of the organs and some tissues in the body. When one lies inside the MRI machine, the water molecules in the body start to rearrange in the magnetic field temporarily and this is due to the radio waves that produces faint signals that are used to create cross-sectional MRI images.