Labels:book | bulletin board | case | cell | donut | food | microorganism | road | sky OCR: IMAGING THE INTESTINES OUR SMALL AND LARGE intestines image called an X -ray This involves form the longest part of your the patient receiving a substance called digestive system. T ogether they are barium. As this passes through the over 6.5 m (21 feet) long. They run intestines, they become visible or from the stomach to the anus, and fill -ray film. This imaging technique most of the abdomen The body must S pasn detect irregularities in the be specially prepared before the lining of the intestines, such as ulcers, intestines can be examined on an tumors. and inflamm atory diseases X-ray of the small Intestine X-ray of the large intestine used