While we can’t say how much a single scan raises any individual’s risk, our figures do show that there’s about one cancer per 50 CTs in girls who get scanned before age 1, for example, and ...

There is some risk with specific imaging methods. Radiation from X-rays and CT scans can be problematic, but for the most part, these imaging abilities provide useful information with a very low risk ...

A woman who believed she was suffering from panic attacks and anxiety discovered she had an incurable brain tumor. Kim Wilson ...

When Blood Can't Get To Brain, Special CT Scan Helps Date: June 8, 2004 Source: University Of Michigan Health System Summary: It's a no-brainer that the brain needs a constant supply of blood to ...

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Like X-rays and PET scans, CT scans use ionizing radiation, which can damage DNA and cause cancer. Two other imaging technologies, MRI scans and ultrasound, do not use radiation.

Scanners manufactured in past 10 years are calibrated for kids GREENVILLE, S.C. — CT scans have transformed medicine. They can provide stunningly detailed images of the inside of the brain.

If you've suffered a serious injury or your doctor suspects cancer, a CT scan could be lifesaving. But since 1980, the number of those tests done each year has grown from fewer than 3 million to ...

WIKIMEDIA COMMONS, NITHINRAO Children under the age of 15 who received two to three CT scans of the head have three times the risk of developing brain cancer as adults compared to those who have never ...

Exposing a child to the nuclear radiation from two or three computed tomography (CT) head scans can triple its risk of developing brain cancer later in life, according to a 20-year study published ...