Meet the Imaging System with X-Ray Vision

Meet the Imaging System with X-Ray Vision

Often called a “cat scan,” Computed Tomography (CT) is a non-invasive medical test used to look at the lungs, bones, soft tissues and/or blood vessels. CT uses an x-ray tube that rotates 360º around the area being scanned, capturing multiple pictures – or “slices” – as it goes.

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Discover Lung Cancer Early With LDCT Screening at Radiology Associates Imaging (RAI)

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Discover Lung Cancer Early With LDCT Screening at Radiology Associates Imaging (RAI)

If you are or were once a heavy smoker, you should know about Low Dose Computed Tomography, or LDCT. In a randomized clinical trial of current and former heavy smokers who reached 30 “pack years” – which is the number of packs smoked a day multiplied by the number of years spent smoking – LDCT proved to catch nodules in the lung while they were still small and contained enough to be successfully treated better than conventional chest x-ray.