Researchers warn that radiation from the machines can increase cancer risk. New Medicare rules aim to make these imaging ...

A Wolverine skull collected in British Columbia in 1948 is prepared for the 10,000th CT scan at the University of Michigan Research Museum Center, 3600 Varsity Drive in Ann Arbor on Friday, Jan ...

Sweden's Viking Age population appears to have suffered from severe oral and maxillofacial disease, sinus and ear infections, ...

We hypothesized that patients with a GCS 15 and a completely normal examination including the lack of a cephalohematoma would not have an intracranial injury and may not require a head CT scan as ...

Cancers occurring in the mouth, nose, and throat are on the rise in the U.S., especially in younger people. About 60,000 new cases are diagnosed every year with one in five cases occurring in people ...

That recently changed thanks to computed tomography (CT) scanning technology. Using the imaging technique, an interdisciplinary team of forensic dental experts, archeologists, and radiologists ...

When diagnosing lung metastases and second primary lung cancer in patients with head and neck cancer, low-dose CT leads to better sensitivity than chest x-ray but does not lead to improved overall ...

The amount you absorb during a CT scan of your belly, for example, is different than the amount during a scan of your head. The unit doctors use to measure the dose is the millisievert (mSv).

analyzed the pre-treatment CT scans of patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) to locate radiomic biomarkers that can be used to predict the aggressiveness of the disease and ...