May 2, 2012 (Vancouver, British Columbia) — Computed tomography (CT) scans after inconclusive abdominal ultrasounds have a diagnostic yield of about one third, according to research presented here at ...

Computed tomography –or CT–scans have become a powerful imaging tool for diagnosing disease. Health-care providers performed more than 70 million CT scans in the United States in 2007. Cutting the ...

A new study reveals that abdominal CT scans play a significant role in diagnosing sarcopenia, a potentially reversible muscle-wasting condition that affects millions of older adults. Sarcopenia is ...

A new CT (computed tomography) scan method can reduce radiation dose by splitting a full C-ray beam into thin and small beamlets. A team of researchers at the University College London (UCL) ...

Patients who come to the emergency room with abdominal pain present a diagnostic challenge to doctors the symptom could be attributed to a number of conditions. A computer tomography (CT) scan gives ...

Medical imaging scans that create detailed images of the body's internal structures are widely used in medicine. Doctors need them to detect and manage certain types of cancer, assess the extent of ...

Researchers worry radiation from the scans could have future side effects. Nov. 28, 2007— -- Radiation from the increasingly popular computed tomography scanning machines may be causing cancer, a ...

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 ...

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 ...