CHICAGO (Reuters) - More than half of patients receiving abdominal CT scans, an advanced type of X-ray, got them for tests they did not need, exposing them to excess radiation that could raise the ...

A new study reveals that abdominal CT scans play a significant role in diagnosing sarcopenia, a potentially reversible muscle-wasting condition that affects millions of older adults. Sarcopenia is ...

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 ...

Although CT is a relatively recent technology, there have been great improvements in the equipment. The early, slow "Step and Scan" machines required long image acquisition times, resulting in a ...

Unenhanced CT was about 30% less accurate than contrast-enhanced CT for the evaluation of acute abdominal pain in the emergency department (ED), a retrospective study showed. Of 201 adult patients, ...

(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) ― A study of more than 12,000 children from emergency departments throughout the country in the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) has identified seven ...

Computed tomography (CT or CAT) scans help doctors detect everything from cancer to kidney stones. But some physicians are raising concerns about the safety of such procedures — most notably, an ...