Computed tomography (CT) radiation dose optimization encompasses a suite of advanced methodologies designed to minimise patient exposure to ionising radiation while preserving or enhancing diagnostic ...

Researchers from the University of California Davis have come up with several new radiation dose reduction strategies as outlined in three articles published this month in the Journal of the American ...

An article in the September issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology summarizes methods for radiation dose optimization in chest computed tomography (CT) scans. Chest CT is the third ...

CT is one of the most widely used diagnostic imaging tools, but accurately estimating patient radiation dose remains ...

There has been an escalating risk of brain cancer associated with increasing radiation dose to the brain from CT examinations, a cohort study of more than 650,000 children and young adults indicated.

Computed tomography -- also known as computed axial tomography, a CT scan, or a CAT scan -- is a tool doctors use to diagnose many types of health problems. Special X-ray equipment creates images of ...

"CT-associated cancers could eventually account for 5% of all new cancer diagnoses annually," a recently published study suggested Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has ...