Category: Medical Imaging

How Imaging Can Help Relieve Aches and Pains

How Imaging Can Help Relieve Aches and Pains When you have aches and pains in your back or another part of your body, it can affect your daily life and prevent you from...

May 11, 2022 – 3 min read
Woman clutching her neck while making a face like she is in pain with a red area colored on the image, used to explain neck pain and tech neck

Tech Neck Woes

How Imaging Can Correct Tech Neck Woes Whether you’ve heard of tech neck (sometimes called text neck) or not, the neck pain caused by staring down at devices like smartphones is on the...

April 26, 2022 – 3 min read
Example of diagnostic imaging scan with a provider and patient

Why Get Diagnostic Imaging at American Health Imaging?

Why Get Diagnostic Imaging at American Health Imaging? When you need diagnostic imaging, such as an MRI or CT scan, you might think that you have to go to a hospital for your...

April 26, 2022 – 3 min read

What a Chest CT Scan Can Reveal About Your Lungs

What a Chest CT Scan Can Reveal About Your Lungs A chest CT scan is a detailed imaging study created from multiple X-ray images taken from different angles around your upper body. When...

November 9, 2021 – 3 min read

What Causes Blood Clots?

What Causes Blood Clots? Smoking Is a Major Factor You probably know the basics about blood clots and how they endanger your health. But what causes blood clots, and could you be putting...

November 8, 2021 – 4 min read

Imaging Tests for Crohn’s Disease

Imaging Tests for Crohn’s Disease It can be hard to diagnose Crohn’s disease. Its symptoms mimic many other conditions of the digestive system, including bacterial infection and colitis. If you’re having gastrointestinal (GI)...

August 30, 2021 – 3 min read

MRI With Pacemaker: Is It Safe?

An MRI With a Pacemaker: Is It Safe? For years, combining an MRI with a pacemaker was unthinkable. It wasn’t even an option. The risk was too great, regardless of whether a traditional...

August 30, 2021 – 4 min read

Accelerated Breast MRI for Breast Implants

Accelerated Breast MRI for Breast Implants The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommends regular screening for all women with silicone gel breast implants, whether those implants were for breast augmentation or reconstructive...

August 30, 2021 – 3 min read

What Is a Pelvic CT Scan?

What Is a Pelvic CT Scan? Computed tomography (CT) is a noninvasive test that takes several cross-sectional images of an area of the body that are combined into one 3D image. Your physician...

August 13, 2021 – 3 min read