Ct Scans

Science

Hospitals Are Needlessly Irradiating Their Patients

11:00AM June 19, 2011 | Kwame Opam

Medicare outpatient claims for 2008 are showing that thousands of Medicare patients received unnecessary double CT scans that year. The practice not only costs the Medicare program millions of dollars, but exposes patients to potentially dangerous doses of radiation. More »

Geek Out

Programming Error Results In Radiation Overdoses

4:00PM October 15, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

In attempt to get better data, a hospital overrode default protocol on a CT scanner over a year ago. Now they’ve realised that they made a little mistake and have been giving people eight times the acceptable doses of radiation. More »

Gadgets

CT Scans of iPhone: Safer Than Exploratory Surgery

1:00AM February 8, 2009 | Gizmodo US Edition

A NYC radiologist decided to use his hospital’s CT scanner to take a peek at the innards of stuff he had lying around, including an iPhone, iBook, and electric razor.

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