These are CT scans of two patients with traumatic brain injury. Red arrows point to the catheter tips used to collect samples of brain fluid by microdialysis. Though both patients are injured, only ...

In a proof-of-concept study, researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the California Institute of Technology ...

Each year, the US performs more than 93 million computed tomography (CT) scans, many of which offer limited clinical value. For patients with mild head injuries, CT scans are often ordered reflexively ...

Children and young adults who are exposed to a single CT scan of the head or neck before age 22 years are at significantly increased risk of developing a brain tumor, particularly glioma, after at ...

For years, concussions were described as temporary disruptions in brain function that could not be seen on any medical test.

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 ...