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CT Scans Reveal the Health and Lives of Ancient Egyptian Priests

CT scans used by Keck Medicine of USC have revealed health secrets in two ancient Egyptian priests, offering insight into ancient life.

Photon-counting CT outperforms conventional CT in lung cancer management

In a prospective imaging study of 200 adults with lung cancer, photon-counting CT reduced radiation exposure, yielded fewer ...

CT scans unwrap secrets of ancient Egyptian life

Keck Medicine of USC radiologists use computed tomography (CT) scanners to diagnose and treat patients' diseases and injuries. Recently, however, this advanced technology was put to a far more novel ...

What Do You Get When You Put a Mummy Through a CT Scan?

Researchers at the University of Southern California recently used high-resolution CT scanners and medical-grade 3-D printers to conduct virtual autopsies on the two Egyptian mummies. Their goal, as ...

Since Lung Cancer Is So Deadly, Why Don’t More People Get Screened?

Many people don’t realize that lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S. In fact, it’s responsible for ...
IEEE

Real-World Low-Dose CT Image Denoising by Patch Similarity Purification

Abstract: Reducing the radiation dose in CT scanning is important to alleviate the damage to the human health in clinical scenes. A promising way is to replace the normal-dose CT (NDCT) imaging by low ...
IEEE

An Educational CT Scanner Prototype Using Optical Scanning

Abstract: This project focuses on creating an inexpensive educational apparatus modelling a 3rd generation CT scanner. The prototype uses nonradiative light sources and combines 3D printing, ...