Lung cancer is the No. 1 cause of cancer-related death in the United States. Screening with low dose computed tomography (called low dose CT or LDCT) can save lives for people at high risk for this ...

Patients are exposed to 2% of the radiation of a normal CT scan TUESDAY, March 18, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Low-dose CT chest scans could help detect pneumonia in at-risk patients while exposing them ...

Dr George Owiti, a radiographer at Kericho County Hospital examines the Chest CT results of a patient admitted to the hospital. [James Wanzala, Standard] Despite recent breakthroughs that have ...

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals and other healthcare facilities in the U.S. have been plagued by a seemingly never-ending stream of shortages: of personal protective equipment, ICU beds, ...

Previous studies have found less than 40% of patients with stable chest pain undergoing invasive coronary angiography are found to have obstructive coronary artery disease. Recent randomized clinical ...

Chest CT scans of three representative patients from the Framingham Heart Study. The deep learning system has identified and outlined the heart (blue contours) and coronary calcium (orange contours). ...