On the day of your appointment, you may need to complete a history form before being taken into the imaging room. Once in the imaging room, you may be asked to remove jewelry or other items and to change into a hospital gown.

Depending on the type of imaging test, the technologist may insert an intravenous catheter to administer a contrast material, so that certain organs and tissues show up more clearly on the images.

Usually a written report from the radiologist is sufficient. Some doctors, however, may wish to see a copy of the study and will ask you to bring a copy with you.

In most cases our reports are generated within minutes of completing the examination. We usually send reports and copies of the images by safe, encrypted email to you and to your doctor. However, we would be happy to send hard copies by post instead if you prefer that we do not use email. We do not routinely perform video-recording of gynaecological scans, but we can arrange that easily if you wish us to do so. We do however, offer DVDs with records of the examinations to women attending for early pregnancy scans.

You can get started with X-Ray by including the X-Ray language SDK in your application and installing the X-Ray daemon.