what can be found using a CT scan?
2006-09-27 00:37:09 · 7 answers · asked by jay dee 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
CT SCAN are used for imaging or viewing the entire body structure in three dimensional image. The way I understand your question, I believe that you are specifically interested to know the Head CT Scan which includes the brain.
By doing CT scan of the head, the full structure of the brain can be viewed, any bleeding or fractures will be seen, increase in cranial pressures will be detected, and to some extent, infarcts and tumors are detected but less sensitive as compared to the so called MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging). Let me emphasize that CT Scan is used only for diagnosis and it is not a form of treatment by any way.
Used in psychiatry? The only benefit it can offer to psychiatry is when the cause of psychiatric disorder is organic (caused by any pathology or disorder of the brain then diagnosis will be made. However any psychiatric disorders of behavioral origin or any other etiology has nothing to do with CT Scanning. CT Scanning has nothing to offer.
2006-09-27 11:50:19 · answer #1 · answered by ♥ lani s 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be used in psychiatry only to rule out intracranial pathology. The CT scan is a modern adaption of the old scan with multiple views from different angles giving a three dimensional picture.
2006-09-27 10:20:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A CT scan produces cross-sectional views of organs, or of the whole body. It allows us to view the head and brain just as though we took a saw and cut off the top half of the head, then looked at the cut surface. But a lot cleaner :-)
2006-09-27 13:28:43 · answer #3 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the CT Scan (or computed tomography scan) is used simply to see the structures in our body - both bony structures and soft tissues/ body organs. unlike the the usual radiograph (a.k.a. X-ray), small cuts can be made on the CT Scan to see the different sites/perspectives in our body per centimeters or on higher technology of the CT scan even millimeters. Thus, small masses (e.g. tumors) can be seen through CT Scan.
2006-09-27 09:39:50 · answer #4 · answered by poni 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I assume you mean a CT scan of the brain? It would be used to rule out a physiological basis for any aberrant behaviour. As to what can be seen, everything in the most minute detail. The only thing you don't see is the actual electrical activity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroimaging
2006-09-27 07:48:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To see if anything was wrong around the brain that may be causing problems.
2006-09-27 07:44:53 · answer #6 · answered by Starr 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
somthing not normal in the brain
2006-09-27 13:07:37 · answer #7 · answered by jeremy31593 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋