Hospitals in the Philadelphia region are replacing older generations of ct scanners with new ones that expose patients to less radiation. Americans undergo tens of millions of CT scans annually — ...

No Increase in Pediatric ER CT Scan Use from 2003 to 2010 A second-generation 320-detector row computed tomography (CT) scanner reduces radiation exposure for patients undergoing coronary CT ...

Getting a CT scan is probably not on anyone’s bucket list; but if you need one, Essentia Health- St. Mary’s recently invested more than $2 million on the Siemens Somatom Flash Scanner, which uses ...

A stock photo of a person undergoing a CT scan A recently published study has found that the radiation from CT scans could potentially lead to thousands of cancer diagnoses "These findings suggest ...

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

Researchers at Beaumont Health Systems have found that the use of advanced CT scanners can significantly reduce patient radiation dose and lower patients' lifetime risk of cancer from radiation ...

COLUMBIA - A radiology clinic in Columbia said it has a machine that can reduce radiation from computed tomography (CT) scans up to 50 percent."When you bring your child in, you'd like it to be as ...

A CT scan technique that splits a full X-ray beam into thin beamlets can deliver the same quality of image at a much reduced radiation dose, according to a new study. The technique, demonstrated on a ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A number of studies in the past year have raised concerns that Americans are exposed to too much radiation from CT scans, increasing their risk of cancer. A: CT, short for computed ...

WASHINGTON - A medical imaging trade group said Thursday that manufacturers of CT scanners will begin installing safety controls to prevent patients from receiving excessive radiation. The dosing ...

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 ...