A new CT scanner exposes patients to less radiation while providing doctors with clearer images to help with diagnoses, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health. Ticktock: The ...

If you have stomach cancer, you have a higher chance of being cured if your healthcare team detects it early. A CT scan is often part of the diagnosis. Stomach cancer, or gastric cancer, happens when ...

A low-dose computed tomography (low-dose CT) scan is a test that healthcare professionals use to screen for lung cancer. It works similarly to a regular-dose CT scan but emits much less radiation. The ...

If you feel pain in your neck and shoulder, your doctor might want you to get a specific X-ray to see what’s causing the pain. This test is a computed tomography scan or what's more commonly called a ...

Doctors use CT scans to figure out what's happening inside your body. And sometimes that's after a crash. But what if that same technology could be used to make the car safer to begin with? That's ...

Lung cancer is the No. 1 cause of cancer-related death in the United States. Screening with low dose computed tomography (called low dose CT or LDCT) can save lives for people at high risk for this ...

Mayo Clinic is extending a historical exhibit to showcase its 40-year-old CT scanner — the first one ever used in the United States. "It is such a historical part of medicine," saidCynthia McCollough, ...

The U-CT system is a rapid preclinical CT scanner that scans the entire mouse body in as little as 5 sec. while exposing it to extremely low levels of radiation (<2 mGy). The device can be extended to ...

The discovery comes as part of an ongoing study using CT scans to order to analyze the remains of six different mummies, the ...

When James Duncan, M.D., a radiologist at Washington University in St. Louis, experienced intense pain in his abdomen in 2010, he rushed to a local emergency room. His doctors suspected kidney stones, ...