Use of computed tomography (CT) scans of the chest for hospital emergency-room patients with blunt trauma could be reduced by more than one-third without compromising detection of major injury, ...

Routine chest X-rays are ordered for a variety of clinical situations, but a study suggests that there may be a new use for them in the arena of preventive cardiology—measurement of coronary artery ...

Researchers have managed to radiologically view the novel coronavirus infected individuals, and this could be a step towards early detection of this virus and diagnosis of those infected by it. The ...

In a recent study published in Frontiers in Public Health, researchers demonstrated that vasculature-like signals (N) in chest computed tomography (CT) scans could serve as robust imaging biomarkers ...

The goal of this Dutch multicenter prospective study was to assess the cost-effectiveness of whole-body 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG PET) in comparison to chest computed ...

A substantial percentage of patients who receive radiologist recommendations for chest CT to evaluate abnormal findings on outpatient chest X-rays have clinically relevant findings, including cancer, ...

When radiologists are looking at contrast-enhanced chest CT examinations, they should take a look at the patient's heart to rule out heart attack, regardless of why the chest CT examination is being ...

Patients are exposed to 2% of the radiation of a normal CT scan TUESDAY, March 18, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Low-dose CT chest scans could help detect pneumonia in at-risk patients while exposing them ...

MALVERN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared three modules of AI-Rad Companion Chest CT¹, an intelligent software assistant from Siemens Healthineers that ...

Immunofluorescent staining showing γ-H2AX foci in blood lymphocytes following standard-dose CT. Left: nuclear DNA of four lymphocytes. Centre: γ-H2AX foci. Right: markers of DNA double-strand breaks; ...