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Computed Tomography (CT Scan)
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"CT is an amazingly versatile and wonderful imaging modality because it allows us to obtain high quality cross-sectional images of the living body in great detail. It is a very powerful tool to peer inside the human body to diagnose disease. The technology has steadily improved over the years, providing faster scanning, thinner slice thickness, and improved resolution with each new generation of scanner. Improvements are sure to continue, with new technological innovations in the future that reduce radiation exposure and improve detail, allowing high quality, three dimensional images of the human body to be created."
Ben Hollenberg, MD, Mecklenburg Radiology Associates
CT scans are a noninvasive, painless radiological procedure that is useful in diagnosing diseases and medical conditions in internal organs, bone, soft tissue and blood vessels. CT scans produce much more clarity that a typical x-ray since it produces multiple images from inside the body and creates a cross-sectional view of the area imaged. It is especially helpful in diagnosing cancer, heart disease, infectious disease, trauma and musculoskeletal problems. It is often the preferred exam for studying the chest and abdomen because of the detailed images created by the multi-sliced views. Radiologists can confirm cancers, such as lung, liver and pancreatic, and can accurately determine the size, location and extent of involvement, using CT. Small bones, muscles and blood vessels are easily seen, making it preferable in imaging the spine, hands, feet and the entire skeletal system. Specialty exams, such as Cardiac Calcium CT Scoring and CT Colonoscopy are helping to diagnose heart disease more accurately and screen patients for colon cancer. Patients who are at risk for osteoporosis can be screened using specialty bone density tests. CT technology allows interventional radiologists to perform guided biopsies and other minimally invasive procedure.
"CT is an amazingly versatile and wonderful imaging modality because it allows us to obtain high quality cross-sectional images of the living body in great detail. It is a very powerful tool to peer inside the human body to diagnose disease. The technology has steadily improved over the years, providing faster scanning, thinner slice thickness, and improved resolution with each new generation of scanner. Improvements are sure to continue, with new technological innovations in the future that reduce radiation exposure and improve detail, allowing high quality, three dimensional images of the human body to be created."
Ben Hollenberg, MD, Mecklenburg Radiology Associates
CT scans are a noninvasive, painless radiological procedure that is useful in diagnosing diseases and medical conditions in internal organs, bone, soft tissue and blood vessels. CT scans produce much more clarity that a typical x-ray since it produces multiple images from inside the body and creates a cross-sectional view of the area imaged. It is especially helpful in diagnosing cancer, heart disease, infectious disease, trauma and musculoskeletal problems. It is often the preferred exam for studying the chest and abdomen because of the detailed images created by the multi-sliced views. Radiologists can confirm cancers, such as lung, liver and pancreatic, and can accurately determine the size, location and extent of involvement, using CT. Small bones, muscles and blood vessels are easily seen, making it preferable in imaging the spine, hands, feet and the entire skeletal system. Specialty exams, such as Cardiac Calcium CT Scoring and CT Colonoscopy are helping to diagnose heart disease more accurately and screen patients for colon cancer. Patients who are at risk for osteoporosis can be screened using specialty bone density tests. CT technology allows interventional radiologists to perform guided biopsies and other minimally invasive procedure.
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