A Chinese man's bizarre habit of sniffing his dirty socks landed him in the hospital after it led to him developing a serious ...

Cancer risk from a single CT scan is low, but repeated exposure could increase the risk of radiation-induced cancer.

Radiation from imaging could lead to lung, breast and other future cancers, with a 10-fold increased risk for babies, ...

A new study suggests the cumulative effects of ionizing radiation from CT scans may raise a person's lifetime risk of ...

"CT can save lives, but its potential harms are often overlooked," said Dr. Rebecca Smith-Bindman, the study's lead author and a UCSF radiologist. Smith-Bindman, who also ...

CT scans may account for 5% of all cancers annually, according to a new study that cautions against overusing and overdosing CTs. The danger is greatest for infants, followed by children and ...

Radiation from imaging could lead to lung, breast and other future cancers, with 10-fold increased risk for babies.

CT scans, a widely used medical imaging technology to diagnose ... such as when it’s used to diagnose a suspected pulmonary embolism, or a blood clot in the lungs, in a patient who’s at low risk for ...

A MAN'S peculiar habit of sniffing his dirty socks after wearing them landed him in hospital, as he developed a fungal lung infection. The first sign of the nasty lung condition was a severe cough ...

The model is based on the U-Net architecture. The goal of our tool is to provid a reliable way to segment the lungs in mouse CT scans. The U-net model produces a binary mask representing the ...