Waiting at the emergency rooms for x-rays has been replaced slowly with portable x-ray machines. It is gaining popularity for ultimate convenience and comfort on the part of the elderly and significantly ill people.  The time taken by portable x-ray machines is about 20 to 25minutes.  Unlike x-ray machines, portables are easy to handle and shift to different places as required. Such machines are used while operating a patient or when a patient is in the emergency room undergoing surgeries.

 It is much smaller than the larger fixed one with certain limitations to it.  You can find them in veterinary clinics, dental clinics, or radiologists.  There is no need to take patients to special rooms. Also, the developed technology is much safer and can be effectively taken to another room.  Such machines r mostly used in places where the space is inadequate or where medical facilities are crowded for the convenience of the patients. The principle on which the x-rays work is the same where the light penetrates through the body and the images appear as white.  The patients, who are unable to walk to the hospital, get portable x-ray machines transferred to their homes with a doctor’s prescription and a certified technician. There are different types of portable x-ray machines for hands, remote screening, and radiographic units for regular hospital checkups, and digital mobile x-ray systems.