Pot bellies linked to early signs of cardiovascular disease
...iovascular disease later in life. Electron-beam computed tomography (EBCT) was used to identify calcium deposits in the arteries of the heart. These deposits indicate the onset of atherosclerosis, or so-called hardening of the arteries, and can be detected years before a person experiences chest pain or ha...Study shows radiofrequency ablation highly effective in treating kidney tumors
... RFA uses a needle-like treatment probe, guided by computed tomography (CT) as it is inserted through the skin into the tumor. The probes high-frequency alternating current heats the tumor tissue and destroys it. The technique has been used successfully in liver tumors since the early 1990s and has more recen...Speeding up CT scans with cellphone technology, ultrasound warning signal for breast cancer
...ed in communications technology, to produce faster computed tomography (CT) images; a new device that may make... techniques used in telecommunications technology, computed tomography (CT) scanners may eventually see data collection speeds increase by hundreds of times, le...UT study reveals inaccuracies in cardiac PET-CT imaging, finds fixes
...g blood flow in the heart. When paired with CT, or computed tomography, the PET-CT scanners should be an accurate, noninvasive tool for detecting or assessing severity of heart disease, said Gould, executive director of the Weatherhead P.E.T. Center. However, he said, an erroneous basic concept in the soft...'Virtual autopsy' helps identify drowning as cause of death
... -- "Virtual autopsy" performed with multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) can aid forensics teams in determining if a person has drowned, according to a study published in the June issue of Radiology. MDCT is comparable to conventional autopsy in demonstrating airway froth and sediment that are indicati...Moderate drinking lowers women's risk of heart attack
...ars prior to the interview. The researchers computed several variables. Drinking status was categorized as lifetime abstainers (women who reported never having 12 or more drinks in their lifetime or in any 1-year period); non-current drinkers (those who didn't consume at least one drink per month durin...GI screening: Racing time or wasting time?
...e appendicitis or has an intestinal upset. CT, or computed tomography, scans can help determine if the patient needs to have his or her appendix removed. However, while having a clear picture showing the appendix confirms patient and physician suspicions, the time required to conduct the scan delays time to...$10M grant to VCU to develop new cancer treatments
... deliver radiation over time. Cone-beam x-ray computed tomography imaging (CBCT) Deformable image registration (DIR) Biological imaging for target delineation 4-D intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) treatment delivery Probablistic IMRT optimization NCI Project Program Grants: Few an...No data to support leaving small colon polyps in place
...dely available, and emerging technologies, such as computed tomography colonography (CT colonography), that are under investigation. As the medical community evaluates CT colonography, the AGA Institute offers the following comments regarding the study by Pickhardt et al published in Cancer on the cost-effe...Radiofrequency ablation effective treatment for inoperable lung cancer
...aluated the outcomes of 153 patients who underwent computed tomography (CT)-guided RF ablation for 189 inoperable lung cancers, including 116 primary lung cancers and 73 metastases to the lung from other cancers. The majority of the patients, who ranged in age from 17 to 94, also suffered from severe cardiopu...Lung cancer screening regimen provides opportunity for cure
OAK BROOK, Ill. Annual computed tomography (CT) screening identifies a high proportion of patients with early-stage lung cancer, according to the latest findings of the New York Early Lung Cancer Action Project (NY-ELCAP) published in the April issue of the journal Radiology. T...Measuring lung motion leads to better radiation treatment for lung cancer
... computer software used to obtain four-dimensional computed tomography (4D CT) scans. 4D CT allows physicians to locate tumors and create a three-dimensional model of a patient's internal organs that accounts for bodily movement over the time course of the scan. The three-dimensional model, in turn, guides tr...Computed tomography screening may increase lung cancer diagnosis, but not decrease risk of death
...nt or former smokers with the imaging technique of computed tomography may increase the rate of diagnosis and ...cle. There is hope that lung cancer screening with computed tomography (CT) will be more effective at reducing deaths from lung cancer because it is more sensit...Study shows no survival benefit for CT screening for lung cancer
... first report of an international study looking at computed tomography (CT) to screen current or former smokers for lung cancer found that screening did not reduce deaths from lung cancer. Although CT screening found nearly three times as many lung cancers as predicted, the researchers found that early detect...Outcomes for patients with hepatitis B who need liver transplants
...phic and laboratory data for all participants, and computed a MELD score for each. They then followed the patients for a median of 30.2 months. The patients with HBV-HCC were older, more likely to be Asian and had less severe liver impairment than patients with HBV-cirrhosis; 78 percent underwent liver tran...Multislice CT speeds the diagnosis of chest pain in the emergency room
...al of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), a computed tomography (CT) scan of the heart can quickly detect whether there are fatty blockages or pockets of rock-hard calcium in the arteries of the heartclues that coronary artery disease may be the cause of the chest pain. "The new 64-slice CT scanners...MR angiography highly accurate in detecting blocked arteries
...al subtraction angiography (DSA) and multidetector computed tomography (CT) angiography. In addition, this technology produced images with higher resolution over a larger field of view in a shorter amount of time than previous contrast-enhanced MR angiography techniques," he said. Arterial occlusive disease...Novel computed imaging technique uses blurry images to enhance view
...aging did for nuclear magnetic resonance, and what computed tomography did for X-ray imaging, the scientists s...per, the researchers demonstrate the usefulness of computed image reconstruction on both phantom tissue and on excised human breast-tumor tissue. "ISAM can assi...Better review of new technology is needed to reduce health costs
...urance coverage are met," she says. Using cardiac computed tomography angiography as a case study, Redberg says a more systematic policy approach to evaluate the efficacy of new technologies would also help determine patient benefit and ensure that the benefits justify the cost. She explains that CTA is a p...New research explores limits of non-invasive coronary imaging tests
If multi-slice computed tomography (MSCT) shows that a patient has plaque ...erfusion imaging (MPI) with single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), among patients with a moderate risk of CAD to find the answer. CAD occurs when a...