News and Views — Radiology Associates Imaging

Lung Cancer Screening

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Radiology Associates Imaging Quality Committee Reduces the Number of Unnecessary CT Scans

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Radiology Associates Imaging Quality Committee Reduces the Number of Unnecessary CT Scans

Over the past year, the Radiology Associates Imaging Quality Committee evaluated this issue to determine if we were doing our best to prevent these unnecessary exams.

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New Technology Puts More “See” in CT

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New Technology Puts More “See” in CT

Computed Tomography, or CT, is a non-invasive medical test used to evaluate complex anatomic structures such as lungs, bones, soft tissues and blood vessels. CT uses an x-ray beam that rotates 360º around the patient, capturing multiple pictures – or “slices” – with each cycle.

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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.