CT can also be used for a tissue or fluid biopsy. CT scans may be done with or without contrast. Contrast refers to a substance taken by mouth or injected into an IV line that causes the particular ...

[2] Noncontrast CT in the emergency diagnosis of appendicitis is attractive for several reasons. Administration of oral contrast consumes ... The quality of each study was assessed using the ...

Methods The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis Lung Study invited participants recruited from the community without renal impairment to undergo contrast-enhanced dual-energy CT. Pulmonary blood ...

This study in patients with painful/inflamed hand joints showed that CE-DECT improved diagnostic accuracy and patient management. Contrast-enhanced dual-energy CT (CE-DECT) helped to diagnose ...

1 People’s Hospital, Hubei University of Medicine, Hubei, People's Republic of China (P.R.C), Xiangyang, Hubei, China Purpose: This study aims to develop an interpretable predictive model combining ...

One study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine ... residency in Connecticut remain here to practice medicine. By contrast, the proportion of physicians who stay in the highest-ranking ...

We aimed to leverage the potential of contrast-enhanced cone beam CT (CE-CBCT) to better visualize the distality (‘dark side’) of ... CE-CBCT may explain this better visualization of the ‘dark side’ ...

After school on Friday, a 12-year-old student surnamed Zhang arrived at an artificial intelligence study room in Zhengzhou, Henan province, aiming to use the new mode of learning to enhance her ...

CT scans are quick, painless, non-invasive tests that can identify everything from brain tumors to injuries from an accident. But a new study published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine shows ...

The cover of a People’s Parity study assessing the impact of judges’ professional backgrounds on outcomes in eviction cases, finding statistically significant differences in average renter ...

The imaging test is a CT scan that detects calcium buildup in ... disease lies in revealing risk before symptoms show up, the study authors said. The difference between solo and combined scores ...

The term dad joke is credited to a June 20, 1987, editorial in the Gettysburg Times. Writer Jim Kalbaugh praised fathers’ ...