Preparation for a CT scan (aka CAT scan) will depend on the type of scan you’re having and the part of the body involved. A doctor may schedule a CT scan for a few days out or in some cases ...

Computed tomography -- also known as computed axial tomography, a CT scan, or a CAT scan -- is a tool doctors use to diagnose many types of health problems. Special X-ray equipment creates images ...

Hospitals and imaging centers are now required to track and report radiation exposure from CT scans under new Medicare ...

CT scans of internal organs, bone, soft tissue and blood vessels provide greater clarity and reveal more details than X ray or radiograph exams. X ray images are two dimensional representations while ...

[Pyrotechnical] thought about buying a CAT scanner and found out they cost millions of dollars. So he decided to build one for about $200 using a salvage X-ray tube and some other miscellaneous parts.

The slight renal insufficiency the pope had in recent days subsided and a CAT scan of the chest showed a normal evolution of ...

If you're having some problems, you need to get it figured [out], and CAT scans are a great way to get on top of it," Terry Grant, the supervisor of CT scan radiology at St. Joseph Hospital ...

Vatican says Pope Francis shows further slight improvement, chest CT scan shows normal evolution of inflammation.

CT scans give doctors a look inside the body that gives far more information about the spatial relationship of structures than a plain X-ray can. And as it turns out, CT scans are pretty handy for ...