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 ...

Computed tomography (CT) scanning provides images of sections of the body (slices) using special X ray equipment and sophisticated computers. CT scans of internal organs, bone, soft tissue and blood ...

Chest CT scans account for another 21,500 cancers ... which occurs in more than 28% of all CT scans. In that procedure, people are scanned two or three times during a single session to pinpoint ...

Short-interval CT imaging is a safe and cost-effective strategy for focal indeterminate consolidation in lung cancer ...

CT scans are a common test used by radiologists to examine what's happening inside the body. These scans use a small amount ...

Low-dose CT scans are the recommended screening method for lung cancer. Though lung cancer screening rates lag behind colorectal and breast cancer screenings, recent guideline changes have seen ...

A new study is projecting how radiation from computed tomography imaging​, or CT scans, could lead to future cancers.