Answering a growing demand for radiation dose reduction in cardiac CT scanning, GE Healthcare announced the release of SnapShot Pulse at a national meeting earlier this month. This advancement in technology will achieve up to an 83% reduction in the patients radiation exposure as well as improve image quality. Los Angeles CT Scan expert explains.
The average Americans total radiation exposure has nearly doubled since 1980, largely because of CT scans. Medical radiation now accounts for more than half of the populations total exposure; it used to be just one-sixth, and the top source was the normal background rate in the environment, from things like radon in soil and cosmic energy from the sun. But CT use continues to soar. About 62 million scans were done in the U.S. last year, up from 3 million in 1980.
Los Angeles CT scans became popular because they offer a quick, relatively cheap and painless way to get 3D pictures so detailed they give an almost surgical view into the body. But they put out a lot of radiation. In a few decades, as many as 2 percent of all cancers in the United States might be due to radiation from CT scans given now, according to the authors...
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