The nickname Boilermakers goes back to 1891 when the Purdue football team defeated nearby rival Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana 44â0.
Doctors can use computed tomography (to-MOG-rah-fee) scans, or CT scans, to look for blood clots in the lungs and legs. For this test, dye is injected into a vein in your arm. The dye makes the blood vessels in your lungs and legs show up on x-ray images. You'll lie on a table, and an x-ray tube will rotate around you.
As the dye travels through the bloodstream to the lungs, x-rays are taken to image the flow of blood in the lungs. What about a chest x-ray? A chest x-ray cannot diagnosis a pulmonary embolism. An x-ray may appear normal even when a blood clot exists because clots in the lungs cannot be seen on a chest x-ray. A chest x-ray may be performed to rule-out other conditions, but it cannot confirm a pulmonary embolism diagnosis. NEXT TOPIC: How are blood clots treated?