Reducing the number of unnecessary and high-dose computed tomography in children could lower their overall lifetime risk of future imaging-related cancers by up to 62 percent,
hoganoutletbc, a US study said Monday.Researchers reported in the journal JAMA Pediatrics that CT scans almost doubled among children under the age of 15 in the United States between 1996 and 2010 after an examination of CT utilization data from several US health-care systems.They said CT use increased dramatically because it's effective and offers greater convenience than other imaging methods such as magnetic resonance imaging,
tory burch outlet, which requires that a child remain still in a scanner for an extended period of time.But radiation doses delivered by CT scans are 100 to 500 times higher than for conventional radiography, warned lead study auth
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