The hospital's CEO Dr. Martin Wafula says CT scan services cost between Sh15, 000 - Sh70, 000 in the country's private hospitals while it goes above Sh80, 000 in diaspora ...

A CT scan (also called a CAT scan) is a series of cross-sectional X-ray images of the body. Learn why a CT scan is performed and what to expect during one.

Medical imaging scans that create detailed images of the body’s internal structures are widely used in medicine. Doctors need them to detect and manage certain types of cancer, assess the extent of ...

Adults, however, may face a greater risk since most scans are performed on them. The most common cancers linked to CT scan exposure include lung, colon, bladder cancer, and leukemia.

A CT scan is a type of imaging test that lets your doctor look inside your body. Remember, your doctor wants you to feel “prepared and comfortable for your exam,” Smith-Bindman said.

Officials said the 128 Slice Digital PET-CT-Omni Legend machine is north India’s first and is powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI). It has the spatial resolution of 1.4mm, enabling early ...

Suresh Golani Updated: Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 05:49 PM IST ...

The study itself is basically a modeling exercise. The authors took an estimate of the number of CT scans done every year in the U.S., based on research from 2023. Next, they estimated the dose of ...

But there was a problem—one that had become painfully familiar. The hospital’s CT scan machine had broken down weeks earlier and, and no one knew when it would be fixed.

On the occasion, BVH Medical Superintendent Dr Aamir Mahmood Bokhari told Dawn the most modern CT machine has cost a sum of Rs 400 million. It can handle 100 emergency cases daily.

CT scans performed in the US in 2023 alone could eventually lead to over 100,000 extra cancer cases, a new study claims.