St Paul’s Hospital has a new CT scanner dedicated solely to heart patients. The cardiac computed tomography (CT) scanner will be a key part of a stand-alone Rapid Access Chest Pain Clinic, which ...

New findings from an analysis of the ADVANCE registry support the use of CT angiography as a more central part of the ...

The world's first dedicated CT heart scanner has been installed at ... This will replace visits to the chest pain clinic, treadmill tests and invasive angiograms where dye is pumped through ...

Use of computed tomography (CT) scans of the chest for hospital emergency-room patients with ... UC San Francisco (UCSF) is a leading university dedicated to promoting health worldwide through ...

Additional chest CT findings identified by Chen and colleagues ... is the first and oldest radiological society in North America, dedicated to the advancement of medicine through the profession ...

001), although calcium scores were lower, on average, with chest CT (22 vs 104 Agatston units ... on CVD risk without the added expense and radiation exposure required for dedicated 3mm ECG-gated ...

TUESDAY, March 18, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Low-dose CT chest scans could help detect pneumonia in at-risk patients while exposing them to small amounts of radiation, a new study says. Ultra-low ...

Patients underwent conventional imaging methods, including bone scanning, chest radiography, or dedicated CT and abdominopelvic examination by sonography or contrast-enhanced CT and were staged ...

A CT scan of the chest can be done for many indications, including further evaluation after an abnormal chest X-ray, the evaluation of symptoms such as coughing up blood and chest pain ...

In patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), low-dose CT achieved higher sensitivity than chest x-ray for detecting lung metastases and second primary lung cancer, but patients ...

However, if detected early enough, it can be cured through surgery. A low-dose chest CT scan is a quick, noninvasive test that detects lung cancer in its early stages when it can still be ...

Between September 2020 and December 2022, 54 patients with compromised immune systems who had fevers underwent a pair of chest CT scans -- a normal dose scan and an ultra-low-dose scan.