CT scans are the gold standard for detecting pneumonia, Klug said, but there are concerns regarding the risk posed by repeated exposure to radiation. Ultra-low-dose CT reduces radiation exposure, but ...

Under new federal rules, doctors and imaging centers have to more closely track and report the doses of radiation that ...

Hyderabad: The South Central Railway Hospital at Lalaguda, Secunderabad, has enhanced its services with the inauguration of a ...

Until now, investigations such as CT Scan brain, CT chest, CT Abdomen were being outsourced and the new CT scan facility ...

Lucknow: Patients at the Mother and Childcare Hospital (MCH) of RMLIMS, located on Shaheed Path, will soon no longer need to ...

The scans are estimated to cause 2% of annual cancers — but new measures could keep radiation at safer levels.

Smith-Bindman and like-minded colleagues have long pushed for federal policies aimed at improving safety for patients ...

“We keep doing more and more CTs, and the doses keep going up.” One CT scan can expose a patient to 10 or 15 times as much radiation as another, Smith-Bindman said. “There is very large ...

Trevino will receive a CT scan on his right hand Saturday, Gordon Wittenmyer of The Cincinnati Enquirer reports. Trevino was hit on the hand near the base of his thumb by a foul tip during Friday ...

ST. ALBANS — Northwestern Medical Center recently completed an upgrade project to replace its CT (Cat Scan) equipment, ...