ANN ARBOR, MI – The University of Michigan’s Research Museums Center celebrated its 10,000th CT scan Friday by imaging a campus icon - the skull of a wolverine. Researchers chose the skull ...

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

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 ...

High-resolution neutron imaging and CT scans of the tyrannosaur Bistahieversor sealeyi’s 74-million-year-old skull shed light on its evolution. Researchers scanned the skull of a more than ...

What are the typical radiation doses associated with CT examinations? CT scans of the head, for example, expose patients to about the equivalence of one year of natural radiation. This is about 100 ...

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 ...

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

About one in 8,100 women and one in 11,000 men who had a routine head CT scan at 40 will develop cancer from that scan. For patients in their 20s, the risks were about double, and for patients in ...

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).