This is the summary of "Guidance for chest-CT in children and adults with cystic fibrosis: A European perspective," published ...

Frankie Maldonado, the Director of Operations for Life Guard Imaging joins Gayle Guyardo, the host of Bloom, to share more about their innovative CT scan and ...

However the amount of radiation in a single scan is very low,” says Dr Madhavi Nair, surgical oncologist, Manipal Hospital, Bengaluru. A chest X-ray exposes ... If you are allergic to iodine contrast ...

Depending on the reason why you’re getting a CT scan, you may need to drink a large glass of oral contrast. This is a liquid that contains either barium or an iodine-based substance called ...

There's not always a better alternative to CT scan, according to Smith-Bindman. For instance, low-dose CT has been shown to reduce overall lung cancer death by 20%, and chest X-rays are not nearly as ...

A new analysis estimates that more than 100,000 cancer cases per year could be caused by radiation from CT scans. In some cases, the information provided by a CT scan could also be obtained from ...

Thursday will be the warmest day of the week. We’ll drop back to near normal Friday. Dry and sunny conditions will stick around for the next few days, but clouds are expected to increase on ...

A new study from the University of California, San Francisco, has raised serious concerns about the risks of using CT scans too often or with high doses of radiation. According to this research ...

Computer tomography scans, or CT scans, are an invaluable tool for diagnosing cancer and other conditions. But in a cruel twist, the medical imaging technique may be more harmful than once thought ...

A single chest CT scan delivers approximately 70 times the radiation of a standard chest X-ray. More concerning, some complex CT procedures may expose patients to radiation levels comparable to ...

CT scans, a valuable tool in diagnosing a range of illnesses and complications, could in fact be responsible for around 5% of all cancers diagnosed in the U.S. each year, according to a study recently ...

The total patient dose can be significantly reduced compared with chest CT and pulmonary ventilation perfusion scan and (3) Pulmonary function can be assessed even without the use of contrast media.