Exposure to radiation from head or neck CT imaging increased risk for childhood brain tumors, according to results of a ...

Using CT scans, doctors can more easily diagnose problems such as cancers, cardiovascular disease, infectious disease, trauma and musculoskeletal disorders. » What are the typical radiation doses ...

Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of death globally. One of the most common tools used to diagnose and monitor ...

By harnessing new X-ray detectors, photon-counting CT hugely improves image quality and contrast. In addition, these machines can also provide results at a lower radiation dose, allowing ...

In this analysis, Columbia University researchers estimated risks for cancer that might be caused by radiation from CT scanning. They used data on long-term cancer incidence among Hiroshima ...

and some research suggests that our susceptibility to certain radiation-induced cancer does not diminish as much with age as once thought. "There are lots of reasons for ordering CT scans ...

A new artificial intelligence model has demonstrated high accuracy in detecting and outlining lung tumors on CT scans, ...

A research team led by Professor Hajime Monzen and Dr. Hiroyuki Kosaka from the Department of Medical Physics at Kindai ...

Health P.E.I. set out to get wait times for computed tomography (CT) scans under control. The health authority’s efforts to ...

As well as being used to quickly examine internal injuries from trauma, it can also be used to visualise nearly all parts of the body. As CT scans use radiation however, they cannot be used repeatedly ...

“Children with abdominal pain are a diagnostic conundrum. On the one hand those who have appendicitis need to be diagnosed in ...