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

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    Inpatient CT scans are typically covered by Part A, and outpatient CT scans are usually covered by Parts B and C. Medigap can help decrease out-of-pocket costs. Medicare will cover any medically ...

  3. Computed tomography of the head - Wikipedia

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    CT scans of the head increase the risk of brain cancer, especially for children. As of 2018, it appeared that there was a risk of one excess cancer per 3,000–10,000 head CT exams in children under the age of 10.

  4. CT scan - Wikipedia

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    Of the CT scans, six to eleven percent are done in children, [168] an increase of seven to eightfold from 1980. [167] Similar increases have been seen in Europe and Asia. [167] In Calgary, Canada, 12.1% of people who present to the emergency with an urgent complaint received a CT scan, most commonly either of the head or of the abdomen.

  5. Julie C. Price - Wikipedia

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    Julie C. Price is an American medical physicist and professor of radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Harvard Medical School (HMS), as well as the director of PET Pharmacokinetic Modeling at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center at MGH. Price is a leader in the study and application of quantitative positron emission tomography (PET ...

  6. Reference price - Wikipedia

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    Appropriate services include hip and knee replacement, colonoscopy, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine, computerized tomography (CT) scan of the head or brain, nuclear stress test of the heart, and echocardiogram because they have relatively uniform protocols and are less likely to experience variation in quality. [6]

  7. PET-CT - Wikipedia

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    The patient may now leave the device, and the PET-CT software starts reconstructing and aligning the PET and CT images. A whole body scan, which usually is made from mid-thighs to the top of the head, takes from 5 minutes to 40 minutes depending on the acquisition protocol and technology of the equipment used.

  8. Neuroimaging - Wikipedia

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    A CT scan can be performed in under a second and produce rapid results for clinicians, with its ease of use leading to an increase in CT scans performed in the United States from 3 million in 1980 to 62 million in 2007. Clinicians oftentimes take multiple scans, with 30% of individuals undergoing at least 3 scans in one study of CT scan usage. [36]

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