Discover a quick CT scan that reveals heart attack risk by detecting calcium buildup in arteries, offering a more accurate ...

We learned that getting a CT scan of his lungs every year would have detected his deadly cancer. We didn't know the ...

"His doctor never advised him to have this simple scan that could have identified it early in its development and possibly ...

A CT scan or Computerized tomography is also called a CAT (computerized axial tomography). It is essentially an X-ray procedure that combines a large number of X-ray images taken in succession.

To reduce unnecessary CT use, some hospitals have begun using blood-based biomarkers to guide triage in mild head trauma.

CT scans also have supplanted exploratory surgery, Thomason said. "When my father was a general surgeon, they took so many patients to surgery (because) they had no idea what they had wrong with ...

One CT scan can expose a patient to 10 or 15 times as much radiation as another, Smith-Bindman said. "There is very large variation," she said, "and the doses vary by an order of magnitude ...

A CT scan of a single fetlock produces around 250 images - how can we quickly and efficiently analyze all those images in an ...

Like the CT scan, the photographs were chaotic and confusing, but they were at least fleshy. I saved some, thinking I might be interested in them later.

CT scans conducted in 2023 could be responsible for an estimated 103,000 future cases of cancer.