Brain injuries are being diagnosed with a blood test rather than a costly CT scan

North Shore University Hospital has been using a blood test instead of radiation to help determine whether a patient has ...
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Can a CT Scan Detect a Brain Aneurysm?

CT scans offer one way to learn more about the location, size, and shape of a brain aneurysm. A brain aneurysm is a weak or very thin spot on an artery in the brain that bulges out and fills with ...
Health Affairs

Reducing Unnecessary CT Scans In Head Trauma

Each year, the US performs more than 93 million computed tomography (CT) scans, many of which offer limited clinical value. For patients with mild head injuries, CT scans are often ordered reflexively ...
Medscape

A Single Pediatric CT Scan Raises Brain Cancer Risk

Children and young adults who are exposed to a single CT scan of the head or neck before age 22 years are at significantly increased risk of developing a brain tumor, particularly glioma, after at ...

Mobile brain scans sound like science fiction. But they're now helping more Canadian patients

A rising number of Canadian facilities are using mobile brain scanners to help patients, by offering MRIs mid-surgery in hospital or diagnosing stroke right on the roadside. So what's the future of ...
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CT Perfusion and CT Angiography Not Useful as Standalone Tests for Establishing Death by Neurologic Criteria

THURDAY, June 26, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Neither computed tomography (CT) perfusion nor CT angiography meet the prespecified validation threshold as an ancillary test for death by neurologic ...