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Computed Tomography (CT)
Computed Tomography, commonly known as a CAT scan, uses X-rays and computers to create cross-sectional images of your body. The thin X-ray beams spiral around your body capturing pictures that a computer reconstructs into detailed images. Because the images are as thin as 0.5mm, the CT can offer more detail than a traditional X-ray.
What is a Whole-body CT Scan?
This marvel of modern medicine screens your body's vital organs for disease and abnormalities. It captures your health from the inside out, revealing build up in your coronary arterites, nodules in your lungs and potential tumors in your abdomen and pelvis. In addition, this scan can detect conditions in your spine such as disc degeneration and osteoporosis.
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Over half the people who died suddenly of a heart attack had no prior symptoms. To combat a statistic like this you can undergo a coronary artery calcium scoring (CACS) exam. This exam uses computed tomography (CT) to scan the heart and detect calcium depositis along the walls of arteries, which can be one of the earliest signs of coronary artery disease. The test then produces a HeartScore that identifies your level of deposits. Taking into account other factors such as age, family history, and cholesterol level, your doctor uses that score to measure your potential for heart disease. ARE YOU AT RISK?
Lung Screening
More people die of lung cancer each year than any other type of cancer. Buf if this cancer is caught during its earliest stages, five-year survival rates double. This exam gives people who were smokers or have a family history of lung cancer the chance to reveal lung carcinoma at its most successfully treatable stage. ARE YOU AT RISK?
Virtual Colonoscopy
Virtual Colonoscopy is a new technique for non-invasice examination of the colon. Instead of an endoscope being manipulated up the inside of the patient, the colon is inflated with air and the patient is imaged in a CT scanner. It is then possible to generate a similar view to the endoscope by using virtual reality techniques to fly through the resulting 3-dimensional image. Virtual colonoscopy may provide a useful screening tool for patients with suspected cancer of the colon. ARE YOU AT RISK?
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