During a chest xray, why is the machine positioned several feet up from the patient?

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I work at a hospital. I saw a technician doing a chest x ray the other day. He placed the x ray machine at least 5 feet about the patients chest. Wouldn’t this cause the radiation to scatter? How does it only put the lungs in focus then?

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Imagine you wanted to evenly light a person in a dark room with a lamp. Would you put the lamp right up against them, or back a way so they were more evenly lit?

It’s essentially the same thing.

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