When it comes to diagnosing dangerous dental infections, emergency physicians often overuse conventional CT scans. Could a list of standardized guidelines help reduce unnecessary radiation exposure ...
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 ...
Staging locally advanced breast cancer patients with 18 F-labeled fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET-CT detected more distant metastases -- and thus reduced the number of patients who received combined ...
Patients with locally advanced breast cancer (LABC) typically undergo staging tests at presentation. If staging does not detect metastases, treatment consists of curative intent combined modality ...
Prof. Hengyong Yu of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has been awarded a four-year, $2.3 million grant by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Biomedical ...
Researchers worry radiation from the scans could have future side effects. Nov. 28, 2007— -- Radiation from the increasingly popular computed tomography scanning machines may be causing cancer, a ...
When a child needs repeated x-rays, exposure to radiation is always a concern for parents. A new study at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) finds that a relatively new imaging system known as EOS, ...
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