The growing use of imaging procedures in the United States has raised concerns about patient exposure to radiation. A new study looks at these exposures.

Medical scans have revolutionised healthcare, enabling doctors to diagnose and treat conditions with unprecedented precision.

Common medical imaging procedures use low doses of radiation that are believed to be safe. A new study, however, finds that in human cell cultures, these doses create breaks that allow extra bits ...

Radiation dose management in medical imaging presents a number of challenges. Image quality must be optimized to aid diagnosis while minimizing the risk of patient or healthcare workers exposure ...

To understand factors of relevance and the requirements to assess radiation dose to patient from medical imaging procedures. To consider how a quantity might best be defined to capture imaging ...

In a large study, about 2% of patients underwent procedures that resulted in high annual effective doses. Steady growth in use of medical imaging technologies that employ ionizing radiation leads ...

Radiation dose directives, dose management software, etc, etc – how can a busy radiologist keep up with it all? Medical physicist Virginia Tsapaki shared practical and timely information about these ...

Overall, Brilakis said when it comes to CTO PCI and radiation, the biggest issue is awareness in the cath lab. “The fact is, radiation doesn’t get discussed as much as it should, even for complex ...

» Should we be adjusting our mammographic techniques to produce images with the lowest possible radiation dose to the patient? No. While it is possible to select mammography imaging components (e.g.

Low doses of radiation, ... "Medical imaging procedures using radiation, such as CT scans and x-rays, have a very low level of risk -- so low that it's hard to measure.

TORONTO & PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Radimetrics, a provider of radiation dose monitoring and management software, and Montage, a provider of software for radiology data mining and ...