NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Doctors could soon be diagnosing appendicitis with a computed tomography (CT) technique that uses only half the radiation dose of current methods. According to a statement ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters Health) - When someone has all the signs of acute appendicitis, waiting to get a CT scan to confirm the diagnosis is not a good idea, researchers report. Compared with a ...

Ultrasonography and medical resonance imaging offer similar clinical outcomes as computed tomography scans for detecting pediatric appendicitis, according to a study in Pediatrics. Researchers found ...

On Wednesday, radiology AI company Aidoc announced the FDA has cleared a tool that can triage 14 critical findings in a ...

Computed tomography (CT or CAT) scans help doctors detect everything from cancer to kidney stones. But some physicians are raising concerns about the safety of such procedures — most notably, an ...

Medical imaging scans that create detailed images of the body’s internal structures are widely used in medicine. Doctors need them to detect and manage certain types of cancer, assess the extent of ...

Researchers worry radiation from the scans could have future side effects. Nov. 28, 2007— -- Radiation from the increasingly popular computed tomography scanning machines may be causing cancer, a ...