Chest X-ray (CXR) is a low-cost medical imaging technique. It is a common procedure for the identification of many respiratory diseases compared to MRI, CT, and PET scans. This paper presents the use ...

Background Chest CT displays chest pathology better than chest X-ray (CXR). We evaluated the effects on health outcomes of replacing CXR by ultra-low-dose chest-CT (ULDCT) in the diagnostic work-up of ...

Medically reviewed by Marla Anderson, MD About 40% of people with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)—a type of cancer that begins in the tissues of your lungs—have metastatic disease at the time of ...