Search Tag: low dose

IMAGING Management

Dose-management-radiologists-don-t-face-cancer-risk

2016 26 Jul

Thanks to improved dose management protocols, present-day radiologists who graduated from medical school after 1940 do not face an increased risk of dying from radiation-related causes like cancer, according to a new study appearing online in the Radiological Society of North America journal Radiology .   The study compared cancer incidence...Read more

IMAGING Management

Ct-scans-at-nyu-detect-fractures-even-at-ultra-low-dose-levels

2016 05 Mar

Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center are reporting in a new study that they successfully performed CT scans for joint fractures with one-fourteenth the amount of normal computed tomography radiation — without compromising image quality or a surgeon’s ability to effectively diagnose an injury. The NYU study showed that reduced the...Read more