Are CT scans silently triggering a cancer epidemic — or are we being misled by speculative modeling and media-fueled fear? A ...

Pulmonary angiography of the lungs involves tests that examine how blood flows through your lungs. It can be performed using invasive or noninvasive techniques. The gold standard is CT pulmonary ...

Dec. 16, 2002 — Contrast causes an artifactual increase in lung tissue on computed tomography (CT) by leaking into lung parenchyma and increasing extravascular lung water, according to a report ...

CT angiography (E) and late contrast enhancement (F) images show no abnormal findings. view more . ... Chest CT is the imaging method of choice for analyzing lung disease and tracking changes over ...

In contrast, CT scans can detect lung cancers in their early stages. For some lifelong smokers, warnings to quit can seem as stale as old cigarette smoke.

If a doctor suspects you may have a pulmonary embolism, a CT scan is the gold standard for diagnostic imaging. Learn about when a CT scan is used for PE, how it works, what it looks like, and more.

It is commonplace for patients with Acute Lung Injury to be injected contrast material, before undergoing a CT scan of their lungs. Contrast material helps enhance the image so that doctors can ...