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 ...

She said a CAT scan with contrast found the cancer back in 2008. “If I didn’t have those studies and I didn’t have the care that every human being should get, I would not be alive ...

She was supposed to get her CT scan the first week of June. But she just got a call from the radiologist’s office. Because of the contrast shortage, it’s been pushed back six more weeks to mid ...

While CT scans have been postponed for weeks or months after a COVID-19-related shutdown interrupted one plant's contrast dye production, hospitals could decrease their use up to 83 percent ...

Zac Lysen felt fine when he went in for what he expected to be a routine heart scan. A Coronary CT angiogram uncovered a silent threat. Sponsored by Cardia Vision.

A CT scan shown with contrast (on the left) and without contract (on the right). Hospitals are grappling with a shortage of the contrast dye, which is used to light up vascular structures in the ...

COVID-19 shutdowns in Shanghai, China, have caused a significant global shortage of intravenous contrast used in imaging procedures like enhanced X-rays, CT scans and MRIs.

COVID-19 related shutdown of GE Healthcare factories in Shanghai, China has led to a shortage of iodine-based contrast used in CT scans, MRIs, other procedures.

The problem of contrast-induced nephropathy is a relatively recent one — a byproduct of the dramatic increase in the use of CT scans and X-ray guided procedures such as angioplasty.

A six-month scan using a contrast dye showed she was clear of cancer; that is until another test six months later showed cancer had returned. She’s supposed to get another scan at 8-weeks, but ...