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For well over 100 years, doctors and scientists have used the very first body imaging test, the X-ray. The X-ray is used more widely and more often than any other body imaging test, and can be used on any part of the body. It uses electromagnetic radion waves, and penetrate into the body. The image can be made ready within minutes and, after being revued by a physician or radiologist, will show an accurate image of whatever part of the body was scanned. The X-ray is most widely used in finding broken, fractured, and changed bones, but is also used for many other things. There are many different types of X-ray, for example a Myelogram is an X-ray test of the spine. Other types of X-rays include fluoroscopy, or an X-ray of a moving object or person, an intraveno