(Philadelphia, PA) – The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) is now utilizing a new high-tech tool to quickly and efficiently screen for coronary disease when patients complaining of ...

Since all it takes for an American with insurance to get a CT scan is a slight fever or a missing Q-tip, it’s probably important they have the fastest, most accurate technology available. Philips’ new ...

Black River Memorial Hospital is providing patients with a state-of-the-art 64-slice Computed Tomography (CT) scanner. The 64-slice CT scanner's ability to provide, high quality, split-second images ...

In a recent paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association, [8] my colleagues and I applied cancer risk models to estimate the lifetime attributable risk of cancer from CTCA. Our risk models ...

A written release from the hospital describe the new 64-slice computed tomography (CT) scanner housed in the St. James Heart and Vascular Institute on the Olympia Fields campus. The CT scan became ...

Newswise — These days, hospitals everywhere are bragging about their new high-tech heart scanners, which can take high-speed "snapshots" of the heart and look for potential problems. Oprah Winfrey had ...

A study by an international team of cardiac imaging specialists, led by researchers at Johns Hopkins, concludes that sophisticated computed tomography (CT) scans of the heart and its surrounding ...

There is now more evidence that physicians shouldn't rush to use million-dollar scanners to look for heart disease: Doctors using 64-slice CT scans often identify blockages in the arteries around the ...