What if your old chest scans—taken years ago for something unrelated—held a secret warning about your heart? A new AI tool called AI-CAC, developed by Mass General Brigham and the VA, can now comb ...

A CT scan of the chest can be done for many indications, including further evaluation after an abnormal chest X-ray, the evaluation of symptoms such as coughing up blood and chest pain, ...

In many examinations such as CT of the head (including dental CT scans), chest and limbs, the pelvic region is not in the direct beam and the dose to the unborn child can be very low. Doctors may ...

Low dose chest CT scans have been added to Australia's national diagnostic reference levels to support optimisation of patients' radiation ...

If you're a current or former smoker intrigued by those advertisements for spiral CT scans to detect early signs of lung cancer, the National Cancer Institute may have just the thing for you. Last ...

TUESDAY, March 18, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Low-dose CT chest scans could help detect pneumonia in at-risk patients while exposing them to small amounts of radiation, a new study says.

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Use of CT scans of the chest for hospital emergency-room patients with blunt trauma could be reduced by more than one-third without compromising detection of major injury, concludes a new study ...

“Unfortunately, a chest CT scan done at one hospital may give you a very different dose of radiation than one done at another hospital,” Raj said. Obviously, you want the lowest dose possible.

The study titled, “CT Imaging Features of 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV),” was published this week in the journal Radiology. Skip to content. Menu. Medical Home Life Sciences Home.

To investigate whether exposure to low-dose CT could increase the risk of radiation-induced cancers, a Japanese research team compared the number of DNA double-strand breaks and chromosome aberrations ...