During a CT scan, a patient lies on a table that slides through a large, donut-shaped machine. Inside, an X-ray tube rotates around the body, capturing images of thin slices — like layers of a loaf of ...

Surgery is essential for the effective management of bronchiectasis. Segmentectomy, while a challenging procedure, has become more attainable due to advancements in thin-slice CT scans and ...

instrumentation SPECT SPECT/CT image fusion attenuation correction For many years, physicians have been faced with the dilemma of identifying a region of increased uptake on a nuclear medicine image ...

This article discusses CT radiation dose, the measurement of CT dose, and CT image quality. The most commonly used dose descriptor is CT dose index, which represents the dose to a location (e.g., ...

Lung cancer, particularly in its advanced stages, remains a leading cause of death globally. Though early detection via low-dose computed tomography (CT) is promising, the identification of high-risk ...

CT vs. MRI for Cervical Spine Scan The CT scan is an advanced form of X-ray machine that uses computers to create images of your inner neck. These images show thin slices of your bones, blood ...

Using relevant keywords, we found another video demonstration of the Anatomage table on the YouTube channel of the Campbell College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. In this video, the demonstrator ...

That’s where Holmes Regional’s 256-slice CT scanner shines. A “slice” is a credit card-thin cross-section of an anatomical image. Each is stacked atop the others to form a vivid, 3D image.

During a breath-hold, a thin-slice CT scan was carried out on all GGNs in the lungs for reconstruction, with a slice thickness of 0.8 mm. When the pulmonary nodules were suspected of being malignant ...

Recently, CT scans have been successfully applied to various branches in vertebrate paleontology (Figures 1A–E), for example the studies of archosaur brain endocasts (Watanabe et al., 2019), mammalian ...