A cervical spine CT scan uses X-rays to create a 3D model of the portion of your spine that runs through your neck. Healthcare professionals usually recommend this scan to check for injuries in your ...

A lumbar spine CT scan is a type of X-ray that produces cross-sectional images of your lower back for a healthcare professional to examine. Your doctor may order this type of scan to investigate ...

Cleerly and Clear Heart and Lung Imaging partnered to drive a cardiac-capable mobile CT scanner across Arizona, Louisiana, ...

How is radiation used to diagnose patients? In 1895, German/Dutch physicist Wilhelm Röntgen discovered x-rays. In one of his experiments, he found that x-rays could pass through the body, producing an ...

What if your old chest scans—taken years ago for something unrelated—held a secret warning about your heart? A new AI tool called AI-CAC, developed by Mass General Brigham and the VA, can now comb ...

Emergency medicine physician-researchers at the University of Cincinnati have shown that a targeted quality improvement campaign can safely reduce unnecessary head and cervical spine (neck) computed ...

Osteoporosis progresses gradually and painlessly over many years. Many people do not have their bone density measured until they break a bone or develop back pain. By then, bone loss is usually ...

Computed tomography is a method of examining body organs by scanning them with X rays and using a computer to construct a series of cross-sectional scans along a single axis. In a large-scale study, a ...

Sayaka Blickenderfer is a medical and science editor and writer with more than 10 years of experience. She edits and prepares scientific manuscripts and grant proposals for submission. Jane Kim, MD, ...

One day in London this May, I undressed and changed into a butter-yellow robe. It was almost the same shade of lemon as everything else in the room: the walls, the full-length curtains, the counters, ...

I’ve been seeing a steady drip of people sharing photos and videos of themselves on social media in butter-yellow bathrobes standing on a cylindrical 360-degree body scanner. These posts are all from ...

The AI model named iScreen analyses the computed tomography (CT) scans and picks up white spots which signal bleeding in the brain, and locations of bleeding which might have more severe impact on the ...