Nearly 16 million head CT scans were ordered by emergency rooms in 2022, up from under 8 million in 2007, researchers ...

Head CT rate more than doubles in emergency departments from 7.8M in 2007 to 16M in 2022, raising cost and radiation concerns, ...

A new study shows large increases in the use of computed tomography (CT) scans of the head in emergency departments across ...

Adelaide company Micro-X (MX1) has started developing a small CT brain scanner that can be fitted in ambulances and emergency aircraft. If successful, the device will allow paramedics and retrieval ...

A renewed focus on the medical sector is paying dividends for lightweight X-ray and CT imaging company Micro-X, with the ...

Background Overuse of CT scans is associated with multiple harms, such as an increased risk of cancer development, particularly in children. However, the rate of CT scan use is high and unwarranted ...

One grainy, gray-scale image of a brain changed science and medicine forever. Half a century ago, the first CT image of a patient lifted the veil of invisibility that cloaks the interior of the human ...

There has been an escalating risk of brain cancer associated with increasing radiation dose to the brain from CT examinations, a cohort study of more than 650,000 children and young adults indicated.