There are, however, some major issues with the media reports. Although CT scans can and sometimes do cause cancer in patients, the reality is that you probably aren’t in much danger when you go ...

those that had at least 1 head/neck CT scan were at a significantly higher risk for pediatric brain tumors. Head and neck computed tomography (CT) imaging increases the risk for pediatric brain ...

Computed tomography (CT) scans have ... life-saving benefits CT scans provide. In emergency situations, these scans rapidly identify life-threatening conditions like brain hemorrhages, aortic ...

The study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, warns that CT scans performed in the US in 2023 alone could eventually lead to over 100,000 extra cancer cases.If the current rate of scanning ...

Other experts say the risk of cancer from CT scans is minimal ... They are also useful tools in getting accurate images of the brain. Nguyen said that people should “always limit their exposure ...

CT scans diagnose afflictions from tumors to kidney stones to life-threatening diseases and injuries, such as aneurysms and blood clots leading to stroke. But the radiation emitted by this essential ...

A hot potato: A new study from UC San Francisco is raising alarms about the widespread use of computed tomography (CT) scans in the United States, warning that the technology may be responsible ...

Infants’ brain doses hit 60 mGy, double older children’s levels, making under-1 scans the riskiest per exam. The study projections on future cancer risk were based on the 93 million CT scans ...

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI ... following pediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI). While MRI, including diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), has been widely recognized for its sensitivity to white matter ...

March 18, 2025, USA – @xraymechanic shared a video showing an older CT scan machine completing a balancing test with its inner components visible. The footage captured the machine’s rotating ...

Abstract: A high-quality traumatic brain injury (TBI) dataset is essential to intelligent assisted diagnosis. In this work, we present a new labeled public TBI dataset containing head CT scans and ...