A 41-year-old male sawmill worker suffered blunt abdominal trauma while loading logs onto an edger. Initial abdominal CT scan showed subcapsular hepatic hematoma encompassing about 50% of the liver ...

Although CT is a relatively recent technology, there have been great improvements in the equipment. The early, slow "Step and Scan" machines required long image acquisition times, resulting in a ...

The presence of plaque on an abdominal CT scan is a strong predictor of coronary artery disease and mortality, according to a new study. Researchers found that patients are nearly 60 percent at risk ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) applied to abdominal imaging can help predict adults at higher risk of falling as early as ...

Patients who come to the emergency room with abdominal pain present a diagnostic challenge to doctors the symptom could be attributed to a number of conditions. A computer tomography (CT) scan gives ...

If you have stomach cancer, you have a higher chance of being cured if your healthcare team detects it early. A CT scan is often part of the diagnosis. Stomach cancer, or gastric cancer, happens when ...

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic used AI to analyze abdominal CT scans and identify early predictors of fall risk in adults as young as 45. The study found that muscle density — not size — was the ...

When James Duncan, M.D., a radiologist at Washington University in St. Louis, experienced intense pain in his abdomen in 2010, he rushed to a local emergency room. His doctors suspected kidney stones, ...

CT scans use hundreds of X-rays to create detailed 3D images of things previously visible only through a biopsy or surgery Jean Hanvik decided that enough was enough. When a painful intestinal ...

A single abdominal CT scan can deliver a blast of radiation equal to 90 chest X-rays. I did not know that when I had one eight years ago, but it’s haunted me ever since. Back then I was feeling ...