When planning for palliative radiotherapy, clinicians can forgo an additional CT scan on the same day as treatment and instead use a recent diagnostic CT scan, according to a results from a randomized ...

Development of a performance status prediction model for use in administrative data analyses. Background: Technical studies suggest CT-based simulation can improve the therapeutic ratio for thoracic ...

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A new study has found that the radiation from CT scans could eventually lead to over 100,000 future cancer diagnoses. On Monday, April 14, JAMA Internal Medicine — a monthly peer-reviewed medical ...

This series of microlearning videos present basic principles and practical aspects for conventional and CT simulation for cervical cancer radiotherapy. At the completion of this microlearning videos, ...

Rebecca Smith-Bindman, a professor at the University of California-San Francisco medical school, has spent well over a decade researching the disquieting risk that one of modern medicine’s most ...

Rebecca Smith-Bindman, a professor at the University of California-San Francisco medical school, has spent well over a decade researching the disquieting risk that one of modern medicine’s most ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new $1.2 million study seeks to develop software for calculating a patient?s radiation exposure from diagnostic X-ray CT scans. Funded by the U.S. Institutes of Health (NIH) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty A stock photo of a person undergoing a CT scan A recently published study has found that the radiation from CT scans could ...

Rebecca Smith-Bindman, a professor at the University of California-San Francisco School of Medicine, has spent well over a decade researching the disquieting risk that one of modern medicine’s most ...