A 22-year-old man died from a traumatic brain injury ... next day. A CT scan showed he sustained “extensive intracranial hemorrhage” and the coroner’s report said his death was the result ...

Hounsfield called this technology a CT (computerized tomography) scan, also called a CAT scan (computerized axial tomography). It was especially useful for looking at head injuries and brain ...

Repeated CT scans of the head during childhood have also been linked to a slight increase in the risk of developing a brain tumor later in life due to radiation exposure. In a landmark 2009 study ...

Scientists in China report a rare case of brain inflammation linked to influenza, diagnosed using a F-18 FDG-PET/CT scan.