A new study reveals that abdominal CT scans play a significant role in diagnosing sarcopenia, a potentially reversible muscle-wasting condition that affects millions of older adults. Sarcopenia is ...

Unenhanced CT was about 30% less accurate than contrast-enhanced CT for the evaluation of acute abdominal pain in the emergency department (ED), a retrospective study showed. Of 201 adult patients, ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - More than half of patients receiving abdominal CT scans, an advanced type of X-ray, got them for tests they did not need, exposing them to excess radiation that could raise the ...

After a baseball collision, a 51-year-old man presents with bradycardia that progresses to shock; imaging finds a large ...

Despite concerns about exposing patients to excessive amounts of radiation from CT scans, a Massachusetts General Hospital study finds that such tests avoided hospitalization in nearly one in four ...

While these advanced imaging tools save lives by detecting injuries and illness, mounting evidence suggests they may come with long-term consequences that patients need to understand before agreeing ...

Radiologists are beginning to use AI-based computer vision models to help speed up the laborious process of parsing medical scans. However, these models require large amounts of carefully labeled ...

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