While these advanced imaging tools save lives by detecting injuries and illness, mounting evidence suggests they may come with long-term consequences that patients need to understand before agreeing ...

Your next computed tomography, or CT, scan might be riskier than commonly assumed. A study out today calculates that CT scans are contributing to a substantially greater share of cancer cases than ...

If you have stomach cancer, you have a higher chance of being cured if your healthcare team detects it early. A CT scan is often part of the diagnosis. Stomach cancer, or gastric cancer, happens when ...

Older adults visiting the emergency department for abdominal pain have higher risks for CT positivity and hospital admission ...

ORA Orthopedics in Bettendorf added the Planmed XFI Cone Beam CT Scanner. Traditional CT scans capture images while patients ...

When a new type of high-resolution computed tomography (CT) device was unveiled in Japan in 2017, it revolutionized the field, offering more than twice the resolution of conventional CT devices. This ...

CT imaging of blood vessels in the brain. Lower right image shows a volumetric reconstruction. (Cynthia McCollough, Mayo Clinic, via Physics Today) October 1st, 2021 marks the 50th anniversary of the ...

Children and young adults who are exposed to a single CT scan of the head or neck before age 22 years are at significantly increased risk of developing a brain tumor, particularly glioma, after at ...

New imaging technology can scan incredibly small bones, such as those in the ear, to a 50-micron level of detail, which could lead to swifter diagnoses of diseases. Early diagnosis of some ear ...

Mayo Clinic's X-Ray Imaging Core has access to four micro-CT scanner systems that provide imaging services appropriate to the ...

Researchers have succeeded in developing a dynamic 3D CT scanning method that shows what happens inside the body during simulated heart massage. The method could help to increase the chance of ...