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  2. How Much Will Medicare Cover If I Need a CT Scan? - AOL

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    In this situation, the cost of a CT scan will go toward your Part A deductible. In 2024, the Part A deductible is $1,632 for each benefit period , and in 2025, it is $1,676.

  3. Full-body CT scan - Wikipedia

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    As with any test that screens for disease, the risks of full-body CT scans need to be weighed against the benefit of identifying a treatable disease at an early stage. [6] An alternative to a full-body CT scan may be Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. MRI scans are generally more expensive than CT but do not expose the patient to ionizing ...

  4. CT scan - Wikipedia

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    This makes CT scan the most appropriate term, which is used by radiologists in common vernacular as well as in textbooks and scientific papers. [218] [219] [220] In Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), computed axial tomography was used from 1977 to 1979, but the current indexing explicitly includes X-ray in the title. [221]

  5. Radiography - Wikipedia

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    Though CT uses a higher amount of ionizing x-radiation than diagnostic x-rays (both utilising X-ray radiation), with advances in technology, levels of CT radiation dose and scan times have reduced. [9] CT exams are generally short, most lasting only as long as a breath-hold, Contrast agents are also often used, depending on the tissues needing ...

  6. CT pulmonary angiogram - Wikipedia

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    State of the art modern CT scanners with a scan rate of up to 320 mm/s can acquire all the images within a 1-second X-ray exposure, avoiding the problems of respiratory motion, cardiac motion and contrast draining from the pulmonary circulation during the study. Even though the actual scan may be completed in 1 second or less, considerable ...

  7. Tomography - Wikipedia

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    THz-CT Thermoacoustic imaging: Photoacoustic spectroscopy: TAT Ultrasound-modulated optical tomography: Ultrasound: UOT Ultrasound computer tomography: Ultrasound: USCT Ultrasound transmission tomography: Ultrasound: X-ray computed tomography: X-ray: CT, CAT scan 1971 X-ray microtomography [15] X-ray: microCT Zeeman-Doppler imaging: Zeeman effect

  8. Lung cancer screening - Wikipedia

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    Additional controversy arose after a 2008 New York Times reported that the 2006, pro-CT scan study in the New England Journal of Medicine had been funded indirectly by the parent company of the Liggett Group, a tobacco company. [25] In 2011, the National Lung Screening Trial found that CT screening offers benefits over other screenings. [26]

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