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 ...

an increasing number have been undergoing head CT scans, as CT scanners have become more readily available and faster, thus better able to accommodate children. Unnecessary CT scans, however ...

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 ...

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

CT scans provide three-dimensional images that enable researchers to study in detail the various types of skeletal damage, layer by layer, in the different parts of the skull. "There was much to ...

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 ...

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).

analyzed the pre-treatment CT scans of patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) to locate radiomic biomarkers that can be used to predict the aggressiveness of the disease and ...