Doctors do not routinely use a chest computed tomography (CT) scan to diagnose breast cancer, but a CT scan taken for other reasons may show signs of breast cancer. A CT scan is an imaging test ...

Coronary artery calcification (CAC) affects 20 million Americans annually, and over half of the incidental findings go unreported.* New FDA-cleared technology from Riverain can provide a CAC score to ...

What are the typical radiation doses associated with CT examinations? CT scans of the head, for example, expose patients to about the equivalence of one year of natural radiation. This is about 100 ...

The U.S. Preventative Task Force recommends a low-dose CT scan of the chest for anyone who is between ages 50 and 80 and has ...

About three out of every four patients who have a generic computer-assisted tomography (Cat) scan after chest pains are given the all clear. But one in five of these goes on to have a heart attack ...

Among individuals undergoing low-dose chest computed tomography (CT) for lung cancer, extensive coronary artery calcium is ...

Lung cancer screening with low-dose chest computed tomography (CT) not only detects lung cancer but also identifies coronary ...