Mirza Rahman, MD Another concern has been the radiation exposure you get with each CT scan ... radiology and urology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Whole-body scans often produce ...

Scans of mummies at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History uncovered new details about how they were prepared for the afterlife and helped solve a baffling mystery.

Extending the simple CT scan administered to all acute stroke patients to include the upper part of the heart increased ...

CT scans of internal organs, bone, soft tissue and blood vessels provide greater clarity and reveal more details than X ray or radiograph exams. X ray images are two dimensional representations while ...

In search of a noninvasive, image-based alternative, Sadow et al. investigated whether CT urography can accurately detect bladder cancer in patients at risk for the disease. A total of 838 CT ...

BHUBANESWAR: Ipsita Singh was experiencing recurring back pain, and multiple visits to an orthopedician did not show any ...

They can cause tremendous pain—-talking about kidney stones—what do we know about them, who's most at risk, and how do you ...

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 ...

The scans created thousands upon thousands of X-rays, which are digitally stacked to examine what is inside them.

The information from the PET scan and from the CT scan is different but complementary. The PET scan shows areas with increased metabolic activity, while the CT scan shows detailed anatomical locations ...

The widespread utilization of chest CT scans has increased the importance of the proper evaluation of incidentally found lung nodules. The primary goal in the evaluation of these nodules is to ...

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 ...