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Routine x-rays

Brattleboro Memorial Hospital offers digital radiography (DR) – for standard X-rays – as another example of the hospital’s quest to provide the most up-to-date care. Exams utilizing DR take approximately half the time as conventional film radiography; a chest x-ray that used to take 5 minutes now takes about 2 minutes, conventional spinal x-rays that can take 30-45 minutes are now done in 20 minutes utilizing DR. Most importantly, DR reduces the need for repeats, which in turn lowers the possibility of unnecessary radiation exposure to patients.