A new study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that radiation from a high-resolution cardiac CT scan—the newest, noninvasive test for detecting heart disease—may ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CT head scans were ordered in approximately 175 million ED encounters. Patients who received scans were mainly ...

CT scans identified cancer in 13% of patients with non-specific symptoms, despite a fivefold increase in referrals from GPs from 2012 to 2019. Around 1 in 7 patients were diagnosed with cancer. This ...

Are there any guidelines for doing a CT scan of the head in an elderly patient with dementia who has no sign of head or other injury following a witnessed or unwitnessed fall? What is the standard of ...

A novel artificial intelligence method can be used to generate high-quality 'PET/CT' images and subsequently decrease radiation exposure to the patient. The method bypasses the need for CT-based ...

Medicare data suggest some hospitals regionally and nationwide overused chest CT scans on patients in 2008, exposing them needlessly to a double dose of radiation while increasing the overall cost of ...