CT scans offer one way to learn more about the location, size, and shape of a brain aneurysm. A brain aneurysm is a weak or very thin spot on an artery in the brain that bulges out and fills with ...

Biologically speaking, there is no organ as vital or complex as the brain. And yet, the brain still remains somewhat a of a mystery-there’s a lot that even experts don’t know. Another troubling fact ...

In certain cases, a new method can provide as much information from brain images taken with computed tomography (CT) as images captured with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The method, presented in ...

CT scans diagnose afflictions from tumors to kidney stones to life-threatening diseases and injuries, such as aneurysms and blood clots leading to stroke. But the radiation emitted by this essential ...