A study at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in New York City found that a CT scan of the lumbar spine prior to surgery indicated that a significant number of patients had low bone density that was ...

An algorithm that takes the patient's size into consideration can cut radiation dose by 41% in lumbar spine CT without compromising the diagnostic quality of the images, a new study shows. Researchers ...

Patients were exposed to 2.8-times more radiation when they underwent intraoperative CT navigation during placement of spine instrumentation than patients who underwent thoracolumbar instrumentation ...