Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Omer Awan is a practicing physician who covers public health. Lung Cancer, Scan, Essay Can Be Used Only To Illustrate Cancer, ...

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 ...

An abdominal CT scan packs an extraordinary amount of information into a single image, layering dozens of organs and hundreds ...

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 older patient is guided into a CT scanner — an essential diagnostic tool whose life-saving power is now being weighed against growing concerns about long-term radiation exposure. Computed tomography ...

CT scans have become a vital tool in medicine, using X-rays to create virtual “slices” of your body that help doctors diagnose everything from cancer to internal injury. But about a third of CT scans ...

Having multiple CT scans in childhood may triple the risk of certain cancers, according to a new study. In the first study of its kind, researchers from the U.S., U.K. and Canada worked for nearly 20 ...

Medical imaging has long faced a stubborn trade-off: the filters and algorithms that clean noise out of a computed tomography ...

If you fall down and break something, they will take an X-ray at the emergency room. Show up with belly pain or breathing trouble and the same kind of X-ray — what we call a plain film — will usually ...

Ultralow-dose CT reduces radiation exposure by roughly 30-fold compared with standard CT while providing adequate image quality for planning deformity corrections.

What if the contents of a sealed box could be revealed without ever opening it? For British engineer Godfrey Hounsfield, the ...