CT Concerns

"Researchers at GE Healthcare in Waukesha, WI, presented a technique that needs roughly an eighth of the radiation dose of today's scanners to create an image just as sharp and with the same high resolution. "Dose reduction depends on a case-by-case basis and the application," lead scientist Girijesh Yadava says. "You could go lower or higher [than an eighth] depending on the part of body." This heartening news can be found in Technology Review .