Dr. Isaac Moss, an orthopedic surgeon at UConn Health, can see his patient’s spinal column during surgery without cutting the back open or even having to look at a two-dimensional X-ray on a screen.

MRI-based synthetic CT (sCT) is offering a new way to evaluate spinal conditions by producing CT-like bone detail from MRI data without radiation. Research shows sCT achieves high agreement with ...

(HealthDay News) — Computed tomography (CT) is effective in detecting clinically significant cervical spine (CS) injuries in patients with neurologic deficit or CS pain, according to a study published ...