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.

About 93 million CT scans are performed every year in the U.S., according to IMV, a medical market research company that ...

“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 ...

The rules, which began rolling out in January, come as researchers raise concerns that excessive CT scan radiation may ...