Smith-Bindman and like-minded colleagues have long pushed for federal policies aimed at improving safety for patients ...

Hospitals and imaging centers are now required to track and report radiation exposure from CT scans under new Medicare ...

About 93 million CT scans are performed every year in the United States, according to IMV, a medical market research company that tracks imaging. More than half of those scans are for people 60 ...

It is a highly sensitive imaging technique used in oncology, cardiology, neurology and in infectious and inflammatory diseases. The information from the PET scan and from the CT scan is different but ...

After all, if medical imaging can spot tumours ... However, PET CT scans can also pick up non-cancerous conditions like infections, Tuberculosis (TB), inflammation, etc, leading to unnecessary ...

For many situations, MRI is the preferred diagnostic tool -- especially for brain imaging, although CT scan is still chosen for strokes because it is better at detecting hemorrhage. The drawback ...

Originally limited to scans of the heart, in November 2023 PIQE became available for body imaging as well. Along with scanning resolution improvements, recently, a new form of CT known as ...