A CT scan is often one of the first imaging tests done during the diagnostic process. While a CT scan alone isn’t enough to diagnose pancreatic cancer, it can provide images that help doctors ...

If you feel pain in your neck and shoulder, your doctor might want you to get a specific X-ray to see what’s causing the pain. This test is a computed tomography scan or what's more commonly called a ...

Although CT is a relatively recent technology, there have been great improvements in the equipment. The early, slow "Step and Scan" machines required long image acquisition times, resulting in a ...

Mason Frazier, M.D., associate professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine’s Department of Radiology, says contrast imaging is important part of ...

Las Vegas, NV / / December 24, 2025 / ContrastConnect Key Takeaways CMS has permanently authorized virtual contrast supervision beginning January 1, 2026, allowing radiologists to oversee contrast ...

The volume of contrast media used for diagnostic imaging, including iodinated and gadolinium agents, has increased in recent years.

People with a history of allergic-like reactions to iodinated contrast media, which is used in a variety of X-ray-based procedures, such as CT and angiography, are susceptible to similar reactions ...

insights from industryWesley De BoeverProduct Marketing ManagerTESCANIn this interview, AZoM speaks with Wesley De Boever, Product Marketing Manager for TESCAN, about the Tescan Spectral CT, the first ...

Imaging technologist and patient during a CT scan at Radiology/Imaging Services at UWMC-Roosevelt in Seattle. Clare McLean UWMC Some hospitals in Washington are rationing medical scans and rethinking ...

Many U.S. hospitals are postponing scans used to diagnose diseases after a Covid lockdown in China hobbled the main U.S. supplier of an imaging chemical. By Reed Abelson Doctors cannot seem to ...