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 ...

* New studies prompt concern about cancer risk from CT scans * Experts say an individual's cancer risk is low from CT scan * Use of CT scans has soared in past three decades By Julie Steenhuysen ...

CT scans are used to investigate all sorts of medical issues, from checking for brain bleeding after a kid takes a hard hit on the soccer field, to revealing what a bike accident did to a cyclist’s ...

Rebecca Smith-Bindman, a professor at the University of California-San Francisco School of Medicine, has spent well over a decade researching the disquieting risk that one of modern medicine’s most ...

Patients receiving pneumonia-related computed tomography scans tended to be younger and had a less severe illness, according to a study in the Journal of Hospital Medicine. Researchers retrospectively ...

Computed tomography (CT or CAT) scans help doctors detect everything from cancer to kidney stones. But some physicians are raising concerns about the safety of such procedures — most notably, an ...

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 ...

In a new pilot feasibility study, researchers from Mayo Clinic, the University of Washington School of Medicine, the ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Patients should not let recent studies showing that exposure to radiation from a CT scan may raise their cancer risk scare them away from getting this type of X-ray when it is ...