A nine-month-old Queensland baby born with a rare deformity has undergone a six-hour life-changing operation to reshape his ...

New research projects that the tens of millions of CT scans performed in the US in 2023 could result in over 100,000 cases of ...

Cancer risk from a single CT scan is low, but repeated exposure could increase the risk of radiation-induced cancer.

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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Dr. Rebecca Smith-Bindman about her research indicating CT scans, which emit radiation, will cause some 100,000 cases of cancer annually.

X-rays and CT scans have revolutionized medicine. Doctors can look inside the body and diagnose diseases even before people feel ill. But medical imaging that uses radiation comes at a cost.

A CT scan of the abdomen can show the organs, blood vessels, and bones in your abdominal cavity. The multiple images provided by the scan can give your doctor many different views of your body.

CT scans use beams of x-rays that are rotated around your body to provide images with much higher detail than a conventional x-ray. Rather than a flat image, the computer stitches the scans ...