[Pyrotechnical] thought about buying a CAT scanner and found out they cost millions of dollars. So he decided to build one for about $200 using a salvage X-ray tube and some other miscellaneous parts.

(A scan can cost as much as $2,000 or more and isn’t typically covered by insurance.) Mirza Rahman, MD Another concern has been the radiation exposure you get with each CT scan (computed ...

CT scans of internal organs, bone, soft tissue and blood vessels provide greater clarity and reveal more details than X ray or radiograph exams. X ray images are two dimensional representations while ...

CT scans give doctors a look inside the body that gives far more information about the spatial relationship of structures than a plain X-ray can. And as it turns out, CT scans are pretty handy for ...

AND SO THIS MACHINE IS AN AMAZING PIECE OF EQUIPMENT. IT’S REALLY EVOLVED FROM WHAT PEOPLE THINK OF AS NORMAL CAT SCANS. THIS IS KNOWN AS HIGH DEFINITION VOLUMETRIC IMAGING. AND IT REALLY IS A ...

The museum scientists are using CT scans and X-rays to analyze the remains. "This is a really great way for us to look at who these people were," said Stacy Drake, Human Remains Collection Manager ...

High-resolution scans Masahiro Yanagawa, a radiologist at Osaka University, believes that noise-free, high-resolution CT scans will be a game-changer in diagnosing lung diseases. “The lungs are ...

In the 1970s computed tomography scanners, or CT scanners, transformed diagnostic medicine, allowing doctors to image the whole body in 3D. But the next major leap forward for the core detector ...

Ground glass opacity (GGO) is an abnormal finding that shows up on computed tomography (CT) scans in people's lungs as a result of several possible diseases. These changes are described as an ...

After a collector's packs are scanned, they receive a link to download the CT scan data and software to view it, meaning II&C ...

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 ...

ABU DHABI, UAE — Extending the simple CT angiography (CTA) scan given to all patients with acute stroke on presentation to the hospital to include the upper part of the heart increased the ...