In patients with iodinated contrast allergy, contrast-enhanced CT imaging performed within 4 hours of intravenous steroid and ...

Patients who experience anxiety or claustrophobia can have difficulty completing important cardiac imaging, including ...

Virtual reality (VR) represents a feasible intervention for patients experiencing cardiac positron emission tomography ...

New research could have implications for decisions about withholding contrast in sick patients solely because of concerns ...

A older patient is guided into a CT scanner — an essential diagnostic tool whose life-saving power is now being weighed against growing concerns about long-term radiation exposure. Computed tomography ...

If a doctor suspects you may have a pulmonary embolism (PE), a CT scan is the gold standard of imaging techniques. This painless scan uses intravenous (IV) contrast, a type of dye, to help the doctor ...

Yet H. Khor, MD, PhD, explains why the CPFE index can't replace CT imaging but may help triage which patients need scans. Emphysema extent of 20% or greater on CT imaging was associated with worse ...

Computed tomography, or CT, is a ubiquitous X-ray imaging technique used to perform more than 300 million medical imaging exams globally each year. Use of the technique continues to grow, with CT ...

If you feel pain in your neck and shoulder, your doctor might want you to get a specific X-ray to see what’s causing the pain. This test is a computed tomography scan or what's more commonly called a ...

The increased use of abdominal imaging techniques for a variety of indications has contributed to more-frequent detection of renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Ultrasonography has been used to characterize ...

The finalized project was designed to increase production capacity and support growing demand for PET/CT technology, ...