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 ...
TUSTIN, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--An estimated 1.8 million new cancer cases will be diagnosed in the U.S. this year alone. 1 With a disease so prevalent, treatments like radiation therapy are critical, ...
Lung cancer radiotherapy From left to right: xenon-enhanced ventilation CT, showing a right upper lung tumour causing obstruction and non-ventilation; functional lung evaluation; registration with ...
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 of ...
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The Health Professionals’ Association has raised concerns over a serious crisis in radiotherapy services in Sri Lanka’s ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A number of studies in the past year have raised concerns that Americans are exposed to too much radiation from CT scans, increasing their risk of cancer. A: CT, short for computed ...
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