The more people I talk to about CT the more aware I have become that they do not know the differences between CT and MRI. They often think they are the same modality. I have been trying to educate people about the many ways in which they differ. If any of you watch the show Breaking Bad on AMC you know that the main character, Walt, has ...

An article this week comes to us from the University of California at Irvine that may hold the secret to dramatically decreasing radiation doses for CT and PET scans. The mathematicians behind this innovative idea ''have developed an algorithmic method that would slash by nearly 90% the raw data needed to create life saving medical images ...