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 ...
Hospitals across the U.S. are being forced to ration medical scans and procedures after a lockdown in Shanghai hit a plant that produces a widely used contrast dye. The dye, made by General Electric, ...
The study compared five strategies: reducing the dosage of the iodinated dye alongside less tube voltage, weight-based dosage, using unenhanced CT instead of contrast CT if it’s safe, a combination of ...
Imaging technologist and patient during a CT scan at Radiology/Imaging Services at UWMC-Roosevelt in Seattle. Clare McLean UWMC Some hospitals in Washington are rationing medical scans and rethinking ...
Erin Dwyer has been doing a lot of waiting. After a sonogram in December, she found out that she has a growth on her right kidney and had to wait months to see a specialist. Now she’s waiting for a CT ...
Jeff Silva walked into his CT scan appointment at Good Samaritan Hospital in Brockton looking for answers. A biopsy and MRI had recently diagnosed his prostate cancer, and his doctors had ordered a CT ...
In a recent study published in the journal Nature Medicine, a large team of researchers from China, the United States, and the Czech Republic developed a deep learning-based approach to use ...
Many U.S. hospitals are postponing scans used to diagnose diseases after a Covid lockdown in China hobbled the main U.S. supplier of an imaging chemical. By Reed Abelson Doctors cannot seem to ...
A routine medical procedure turned fatal for 22-year-old law graduate Leticia Paul, who died less than 24 hours after undergoing a contrast-enhanced CT scan at Alto Vale Regional Hospital in Rio do ...