 CT modality focus page provides information, videos, podcasts, and the latest news about industry product developments, trial results, screening guidelines, and protocol guidance that touch on the use of CT across the healthcare continuum, from various cancer screenings, such as lung and colon, to cardiothoracic imaging, to appendicitis, and more.

Articles

Cardiac CTA before transcatheter aortic valve replacement can be used to better determine risk by assessing left atrium functional parameters that are predictive of mortality.

Using Cardiac CTA Before TAVR to Assess Left Atrium Parameters May Predict Mortality

Videos

Diagnostic Imaging sat down with medical physicist and CT expert Cynthia H. McCollough, PhD, to learn more about the history of CT and its expanding potential in medical imaging. 

50 Years of CT: Then, Now, and What’s to Come 

The approval represents the first major technological advance in CT in nearly a decade.

FDA Clears Siemens’ New CT Scanner With Photon-Counting Detector 

Patients suspected of having coronary stenoses may benefit from ultra-high-resolution CT, according to a recent study that showed high diagnostic confidence in severely calcified coronary atherosclerotic disease.

Ultra-High-Resolution CT May Overcome Limitations in Evaluating Coronary Artery Stenoses

Computed tomography (CT) abnormalities are reported among a substantial proportion of patients after hospitalization with COVID-19.

Chest Imaging Abnormalities Common After Hospitalization with COVID-19

What is causing this child’s esophageal and airway obstructive symptoms?

Image IQ Quiz: Esophageal and Tracheal Obstruction in a Child

Edwin Chu, M.D., is a board-certified, fellowship-trained radiologist. Dr. Chu completed medical school at The University of Texas at San Antonio and his radiology residency at The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Dr. Chu also completed his fellowship in Musculoskeletal Imaging at the University of California at San Francisco.

What most likely represents the imaging finding?

Image IQ Quiz: Elderly Male with Chest Pain, Palpitations and Increased Troponin

Whitney J. Palmer has been with Diagnostic Imaging since 2011, serving as the Senior Editor since November 2019. She has 20 years experience in healthcare and academic medicine reporting.

Slideshows

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System does a better job of indicating which patients with acute chest pain could experience adverse outcomes. 

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