Computed tomography, better known as a CT scan, has become one of those medical tests that doctors rely on all the time—and ...

CT scans save lives but could also cause 100,000 new cancer cases in the US, raising urgent questions about balancing diagnostic necessity with long-term health risks.

CT scans were widely used in China to identify #coronavirus cases, and their reliability there is fueling growing interest in using them in the U.S.

Chest CT scans of three representative patients from the Framingham Heart Study. The deep learning system has identified and outlined the heart (blue contours) and coronary calcium (orange contours). ...

WASHINGTON, June 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Lung Cancer Alliance (LCA), the only national non-profit dedicated to providing support and advocacy for those living with or at risk for lung cancer, ...

For most of human history, there was only one way to see inside the body: You cut it open. When, in 1628, William Harvey published “De Motu Cordis,” his theory of the circulation of blood, he ...

Canadian Peter Jansen was inspired to build an inexpensive CT machine after experiencing the high cost of medical care in the US. He just deposited his complete and open source plans for a DIY ...

CT scans commonly taken to help doctors detect injury and disease may also come with an alarming risk - they may account for 5 percent of all cancer cases each year, California physicians said ...