The result is that more and more scans are being done, and insurers and patients are being charged more.
There is growing concern that the CT scans are being done increasingly on those who show no signs of heart disease, subjecting them needlessly to radiation risks.
"Why would I not want to do this?" But as the lung scans are being promoted, one gap in the logic remains.
But in the early 1980s magnetic scans were being performed on humans, and hospitals had begun buying the devices.
Even worse, many of these scans are being performed unnecessarily, and the upshot is higher health care costs for everyone.
The buriedness-index is calculated by investigating the molecular environment of a grid probe in an elaborate scanning process: Scans are being performed along 30 directions that are approximately equally distributed around a grid probe.
With these scan adventure machines in place, the number of pediatric patients needing sedation for these scans was being dramatically reduced.
Acute stroke scanning departments, casualty departments and stroke assessment wards could usefully display the scales as an aide memoir for when scans are being interpreted.
Sample scans are being collected from each centre for central review as part of radiology quality assurance.
If these CT scans were being read without the added experience from PET/CT, these findings would probably not have been picked up on CT.
