If you've suffered a serious injury or your doctor suspects cancer, a CT scan could be lifesaving. But since 1980, the number of those tests done each year has grown from fewer than 3 million to ...

CT scans are diagnostic tests that Medicare covers if they are medically necessary and a healthcare professional orders them. Original Medicare comprises Part A, covering inpatient hospital care ...

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More than 1,000 CT scans have been reviewed amid concerns about the quality of checks by a consultant radiologist. Scotland’s national NHS scan reporting service said a routine audit found ...

For many years, healthcare providers have known that certain sophisticated computerized tomography (CT) scans can detect and measure coronary artery calcium deposits. The names given to the various ...

PET scans can be used to determine how much cancer is in a person's body and how far the cancer has spread, which is called staging. Since PET scans can detect more cancerous sites than CT scans alone ...

Lumen Orbit’s co-founders are, from left, CEO Philip Johnston, chief technology officer Ezra Feilden and chief engineer Adi Oltean. (Lumen Orbit Photo) Bellevue, Wash.-based Lumen Orbit ...

By Mekado Murphy ‘The Room Next Door’ | Anatomy of a Scene Pedro Almodóvar narrates a sequence from his film starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton. By Mekado Murphy ‘Wicked ...

You’ve probably heard of Starlink, but what are Starlink satellites used for, and how many satellites are in orbit? Good question. Starlink is a satellite internet provider that uses LEO (Low ...

In CT, the body is scanned layer by layer in an X-ray tube to visualize the anatomy and localize tumors. Cancer patients sometimes have hundreds of lesions, i.e. pathological changes caused by the ...