Normal chest X-ray – male 1

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Introduction

  • This gallery shows examples of how chest X-ray image quality affects image interpretation
  • Use a systematic approach to check the image quality

Normal chest X-ray – male 1

  • This patient is not rotated – the spinous processes of the thoracic vertebrae are centrally located between the medial ends of the clavicles
  • Read more about rotation

Normal chest X-ray – male 2

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Normal chest X-ray – male 2

Normal chest X-ray – male 3

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Normal chest X-ray – male 3

Page author: Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust UK (Read bio)

Last reviewed: October 2019