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A 302-pound loggerhead sea turtle hit by a boat gets an oversize CT scan, with a surprise
A massive loggerhead sea turtle that was hit by a boat off Florida’s Atlantic coast arrived at a turtle hospital in need of ...
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The First Teeth Grew on the Skin of 460-Million-Year-Old Fish and Were Never Meant for Chewing
In the 460-million-year-old Eriptychius, the researchers found large, open pulp cavities and branching dentin tubules — an ...
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American Lung Association Addresses Recent Study About Radiation in CT Scans
JAMA Internal Medicine published an article, Projected Lifetime Cancer Risks From Current Computed Tomography Imaging, that uses risk modeling to suggest that radiation from Computed Tomography (CT) ...
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Deep learning can predict lung cancer risk from single LDCT scan, finds study
A deep learning model was able to predict future lung cancer risk from a single low-dose chest CT scan, according to new ...
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CT Scan Radiation May Lead to Thousands of Future Cancers
A new study has projected that radiation exposure from computed tomography (CT) scans in the United States will result in ...
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Giant pregnant turtle hit by boat gets life-saving CT scan in machine for horses
A 302-pound (137 kilograms) loggerhead sea turtle, named Pennywise, was found injured by a boat strike off Florida’s Atlantic ...
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CT Scans Linked to More Cancer Cases than Previously Believed
Computed tomography (CT) examinations (known more commonly as a “CT scan” or “CAT scan”) incorporate a series of x-ray images taken | Cancer ...
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Risk scores accurately predicted heart attacks, study finds. With CT scans, they did even better
A new study finds a better way to predict heart attack risk: combining the PREVENT risk model with a CT scan of the coronary ...
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Injured Sea Turtle Reveals Secret In CT Scan
After being hit by a boat in Saint. Lucie, Florida, a loggerhead sea turtle was brought to Loggerhead Marinelife Center to recover. There, a veterinary team attempted to give her a CT scan to assess ...