What You Need to Know Before a CT Scan: A Radiologic Technologist Explains Radiation Exposure, Clothing, and Personal Items

"I'm scheduled for a CT scan, but I'm worried about radiation exposure.""Should I take off my watch or belt?""Do I need to ...

Can chest CT radiation dose be reduced to one-fourth? A 100-patient study on AI reconstruction and lung nodule detection

In a study of 100 patients using low-dose chest CT scan data, the detection performance for target lung nodules was ...
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CT scan is most effective to assess people with chest pain, research finds

Previous studies have found less than 40% of patients with stable chest pain undergoing invasive coronary angiography are found to have obstructive coronary artery disease. Recent randomized clinical ...
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Chest CT Scans Can Help Diagnose Pneumonia

Radiologists accurately detected pneumonia in low-dose scans cleaned up by AI Patients are exposed to 2% of the radiation of a normal CT scan TUESDAY, March 18, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Low-dose CT ...
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Understanding your chest CT and PET scans in lung cancer detection

Dr George Owiti, a radiographer at Kericho County Hospital examines the Chest CT results of a patient admitted to the hospital. [James Wanzala, Standard] Despite recent breakthroughs that have ...
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Chest Scans May Help Spot Heart Disease Risk

Chest CT scans taken for routine diagnostic purposes--even those not related to cardiovascular disease concerns--can be used by radiologists to screen for signs of heart disease risk, new research ...
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AI analysis of COVID patients' chest CT scans predicts ventilator need with 84% accuracy: study

Researchers from Case Western Reserve University trained and tested the deep learning algorithm using chest CT scans of almost 900 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 in the U.S. and China throughout ...