Chest photofluorography

Chest photofluorography
Chest radiography showing advanced bilateral pulmonary tuberculosis. Source: CDC
Purposemass screening for tuberculosis

Chest photofluorography, or abreugraphy (better known as mass miniature radiography in the UK and miniature chest radiograph in the US), is a photofluorography technique for mass screening for tuberculosis using a miniature (50 to 100 mm) photograph of the screen of an X-ray fluoroscopy of the thorax, first developed in 1936.

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