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 ...
It is commonplace for patients with Acute Lung Injury (ALI) to be injected with a dye, known as contrast material, before undergoing a CT (computerized tomography) scan of their lungs. Contrast ...
A single-photon emission computerized tomography (SPECT) scan uses a radioactive substance (Techne gas) and a special camera to create lung images. CT-derived functional imaging is a novel image ...
A CT scan of healthy lungs looks typical in size with no inflammation, allowing the diaphragm to dome. Lungs with emphysema can look overinflated, with muscle loss, making the diaphragm misshapen. The ...
Dr. Jaime Ungo, a specialist in pulmonology and sleep medicine at Pulmonary Consultants, feels strongly about the importance of lung cancer screening. He earnestly encourages patients to understand ...
WVU Medicine St. Joseph’s Hospital has installed a second CT scanner — the Canon Prism — marking a major expansion of the ...
Nearly 235,000 people in the U.S. will be diagnosed with lung cancer this year, but survival rates have improved 26 percent ...
"In other words, if you do a CT scan to calculate volume differences in the lungs the first time and then you try to do it again, you get different results every time for the same patient, making ...
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