A hernia occurs when the tissue or muscle of the abdominal wall tears or rips, allowing the contents of your abdomen to poke through. It occurs due to a weakness or hole in the fascia—the tissue that ...

High-resolution scans Masahiro Yanagawa, a radiologist at Osaka University, believes that noise-free, high-resolution CT scans will be ... drops from the pelvis, or hernias in which the small ...

In the 1970s computed tomography scanners, or CT scanners, transformed diagnostic medicine, allowing doctors to image the whole body in 3D. But the next major leap forward for the core detector ...

Computed tomography (CT) scanning provides images of sections of the body (slices) using special X ray equipment and sophisticated computers. CT scans of internal organs, bone, soft tissue and blood ...

"Trying a bench trial really allowed us to streamline our case and to be creative in terms of how we presented our evidence," ...

Hounsfield called this technology a CT (computerized tomography) scan, also called a CAT scan (computerized axial tomography). It was especially useful for looking at head injuries and brain ...

Can a patient have a CT scan, diagnostic X-ray examination or MRI scan on the same day as the PET/CT scan? » After a PET scan, how long does a patient need to wait before using public transportation ...

CT scans give doctors a look inside the body that gives far more information about the spatial relationship of structures than a plain X-ray can. And as it turns out, CT scans are pretty handy for ...

inguinal hernias, ventral hernias, incisional hernias, recurrent hernias, mesh problems, and chronic groin pain. Our multidisciplinary team of hernia specialists uses a wide variety of surgical ...

If you've suffered a serious injury or your doctor suspects cancer, a CT scan could be lifesaving. But since 1980, the number of those tests done each year has grown from fewer than 3 million to ...

This can help them understand how a disease is unfolding. A PET scan is different from an X-ray, CT, or MRI, which only show images of the body. When you get a PET scan, your doctor will give you ...

Dr George Owiti, a radiographer at Kericho County Hospital examines the Chest CT results of a patient admitted to the hospital. [James Wanzala, Standard] Despite recent breakthroughs that have ...