A PET-CT scan combines a CT scan and a PET scan. It gives detailed information about your cancer. The CT scan takes a series of x-rays from all around your body and puts them together to create a 3 ...

One of the most common uses of heart CT scans is to check for coronary artery disease—blockages in the arteries that bring ...

Why CT Scans Causing Cancer Technology has made many things easier in the medical field. Doctors use new technology to detect diseases. But this same technology can also give us new diseases.

People checked with a heart CT scan after seeing a doctor for chest pain have no less risk of heart attack, dying or being hospitalized months later than those who take a simple treadmill test or ...

Decades after CT and MRI scanners were introduced in India, distribution remains uneven, raising concerns about overuse and ...

Researchers at National Jewish Health have shown that subtle increases in lung scarring, detected by an artificial ...

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital is testing a machine that will put it on the cutting edge of diagnostic imaging. The new $1.6-million CT scan builds a 3-D image of internal organs. Older machines, ...

Many patients with concussion have normal CT scans and are discharged from the hospital without follow-up. But a blood test that is currently under development and costs a fraction of the price of a ...