Techniques appear to lower radiation exposure from cardiac scans

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - 00:49 in Health & Medicine

An intervention that includes techniques to reduce the amount of radiation from cardiac computed tomography angiography (scanning used to diagnose coronary artery disease) was associated with decreasing patient exposure to radiation without significantly changing the quality of the images, according to a study in the 10 June issue of JAMA...

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