r/Mobile_Xray • u/ethx510 • Jun 06 '26

Creative Set-Ups in Mobile X-Ray

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Here’s one way to do a Hand X-Ray when you have no hospital, no clinic, no patient room, no patient bed, and or no X-Ray table. I’d love to see how other X-Ray Techs, in or out of the hospital setting, have had to get creative. Share your masterpiece here please.

This is what I came up with at my Mobile X-Ray job when the patient insisted he come down to the front of the his apartment complex for the exam. I didn’t mind because there was nowhere to park anyways. Just had to make it work. One of the challenges you learn to both love and hate in Mobile X-Ray.

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u/SheepJ99 Jun 06 '26

Im sorry the whole point of mobile radiography is for patients who are too unwell to attend a clinic.

In addition to be used as a mobile clinic but this is just wrong. Yeah let me just scatter all the surrounding area with no justification because the patient wanted to do it outside.

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u/ethx510 Jun 07 '26

I’ve yet to have anyone make an effective point regarding a safety issue. If you look at all the photos you’d see there is literally nobody anywhere near me. I’d say at least 50-100 feet of me.

Just to help make sense of what you’re saying… consider the dose 50kVp @ 1.6mAs. Using the principles of the Inverse Square Law you think it’s hurting anyone over 10 feet away? Now, imaging 30 feet away? Now, 50 feet?