By integrating spirometry with low-dose CT scans, physicians at Philadelphia-based Temple University Health System are identifying serious lung conditions, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

A chest X-ray or CT scan often incidentally finds lung nodules which are small growths While most lung nodules are benign ...

The radiation exposure from 18 F results in internal exposure to the patient and low level external exposure to other people in their vicinity. The radiation (X-rays) from the CT scanner only radiates ...

Patients are exposed to 2% of the radiation of a normal CT scan Originally published on healthday.com, part of the BLOX Digital Content Exchange.

This is about 100 times the radiation dose from a chest X ray. Other CT examinations involve ... Multiple series should be performed only if clinically indicated. A smaller number of series means a ...

Between September 2020 and December 2022, 54 patients with compromised immune systems who had fevers underwent a pair of chest CT scans -- a normal dose scan and an ultra-low-dose scan.

CT scan-assessed high right ventricle-left ventricle ratio of the heart predicts major adverse cardiovascular events in PH ...

CT scans are the gold standard for detecting pneumonia but there are concerns regarding the risk posed by repeated exposure to radiation.

The annual incidence of cardiac sarcoidosis is low, but increased awareness of this inflammatory condition has led to earlier ...

Denoised ultra-low-dose CT can effectively diagnose pneumonia in immunocompromised patients using only 2% of the ... to undergo two chest CT scans: a normal-dose scan and an ultra-low-dose scan.