[Pyrotechnical] thought about buying a CAT scanner and found out they cost millions of dollars. So he decided to build one for about $200 using a salvage X-ray tube and some other miscellaneous parts.

here’s a 55-minute version without all the CT scan info cluttering the screen. For those of you currently blasting eDM in your headphones, here’s a 30 second clip of it looping at ~5x speed.

Hounsfield called this technology a CT (computerized tomography) scan, also called a CAT scan (computerized axial tomography). It was especially useful for looking at head injuries and brain ...

This story was updated to clarify details of Rachael Gingery's time in the medical tent. Rachael Gingery ...

CT scans of internal organs, bone, soft tissue and blood vessels provide greater clarity and reveal more details than X ray or radiograph exams. X ray images are two dimensional representations while ...

According to the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), a computerized tomography scan (CT or CAT scan) yields sharper images of soft tissue and blood vessels than ...

High-resolution scans Masahiro Yanagawa, a radiologist at Osaka University, believes that noise-free, high-resolution CT scans will be a game-changer in diagnosing lung diseases. “The lungs are ...

Dementia diagnosis involves brain imaging, for example using MRI or CAT scans. These brain scans allow clinicians to look for causes of symptoms and may help to determine which type of dementia people ...

The information from the PET scan and from the CT scan is different but complementary. The PET scan shows areas with increased metabolic activity, while the CT scan shows detailed anatomical locations ...

Doctors sometimes perform a combined PET/CT scan to create a 3D picture of the organs and body structures while collecting data about the active tissues or cells. Some hospitals may also have a ...

That's changing with the advent of new imaging technology: CT scans, MRI, 3-dimensional echocardiography (3-D echo), and PET/CT. "It's a new era we're at the tipping point right now," says Robert M.

In the 1970s computed tomography scanners, or CT scanners, transformed diagnostic medicine, allowing doctors to image the whole body in 3D. But the next major leap forward for the core detector ...