Routine reports are sent to your doctor within 1 day of the scan. For urgent scans, reports are sent out the same day.
You should get your results within 1 or 2 weeks. Waiting for results can make you anxious. Ask your doctor or nurse how long it will take to get them. Contact the doctor who arranged the test if you haven't heard anything after a couple of weeks.
Your scan will be reviewed by a radiologist (a doctor who specialises in using imaging methods to diagnose medical conditions). Usually the radiologist will send a report to your GP or the doctor who referred you for the CT scan. It can take several days, or even a week or two, for your results to come through.
How long will my results take? Routine reports are sent to your referring doctor within 24 hours of your appointment. Studies that are marked clinically urgent are read as a priority by the on duty radiologist.
A CT scan can show whether you have a tumor—and, if you do, where it's located and how big it is. CT scans can also show the blood vessels that are feeding the tumor. Your care team may use these images to see whether the cancer has spread to other parts of your body, such as the lungs or liver.
Doctors use a computed tomography (CT) scan, also called a CAT scan, to find cancer. They may also use it to learn more about the cancer after they find it. The scan lets them: Learn the cancer's stage.
During and after your scan, your radiologist will not tell you if something is wrong based on your images.
It usually takes about 24 to 48 hours to get the results of your CT scan. A radiologist (a physician who specializes in reading and interpreting CT scans and other radiologic exams) will review your scan and prepare a report that explains the findings.
In hospital, results may be available the same day. For out-patient, it may take in the range of three to five days for the radiologist to examine the scans and for the report of their findings to make it to a doctor.
As you haven't heard anything for a month when CT scan results tend to take about 2 weeks, it might be worth contacting your doctor or nurse or the doctor who arranged the test. They will be able to look into this for you and give you an update as to why you haven't yet received your results.
The results, called a pathology report, may be ready as soon as 2 or it may take as long as 10 days. How long it takes to get your biopsy results depends on how many tests are needed on the sample. Based on these tests, the laboratory processing your sample can learn if cancer is present and, if so, what type it is.
Our expert clinician team receive your CT scan images and report up to 7 working days after your scan, but usually within a few days. This gives enough time for your images to be prepared, and for a radiologist to write a report of their findings.
Computed tomography (CT) scan
This scan can help tell if any lymph nodes or organs in your body are enlarged. CT scans are useful for looking for lymphoma in the abdomen, pelvis, chest, head, and neck.
A CT scan of the abdomen may be performed to assess the abdomen and its organs for tumors and other lesions, injuries, intra-abdominal bleeding, infections, unexplained abdominal pain, obstructions, or other conditions, particularly when another type of examination, such as X-rays or physical examination, is not ...
Examples of conditions that we would not diagnose on CT scan or ultrasound include viral infections ('the stomach flu'), inflammation or ulcers in the stomach lining, inflammatory bowel disease (such as Crohn's Disease or Ulcerative Colitis), irritable bowel syndrome or maldigestion, pelvic floor dysfunction, strains ...
After The CT Scan
Drink lots of water for the next 24 hours to filter out any contrast material left in your body. Your radiologist at Southwest Diagnostic Imaging Center will review the findings and send them to your doctor.
The results from an MRI scan are typically interpreted within 24 hours, and the scans themselves are usually given immediately to the patient on a disc after the MRI is complete.
The radiologist is more likely to miss something significant if he or she has too many studies to read. For example, a radiologist should spend approximately 10 minutes interpreting all of the images in a basic CT study.
In order to read a CT scan, you must consider the colors white, gray, and black. Each color represents a distinct part of your body: soft tissues, fat, air, and bone. A change in color in a specific area of your body might indicate the presence of an abnormality. Dense tissues, such as bone, are seen as white patches.
MRI scans are generally considered as providing more accurate imagery and are therefore used for diagnosing conditions associated with your bones, organs or joints. CT scans are often used to identify any bone fractures, tumours, or internal bleeding.
CT scanning of the abdomen/pelvis is also performed to: Visualize the liver, spleen, pancreas and kidney. Plan and properly administer radiation treatments for tumors.
Radiologists are specialist medical doctors trained to interpret x-rays and other medical imaging tests. They diagnose and carry out treatments using ultrasound, x-rays, CT scans, MRIs and other imaging technology. A radiologist interprets the findings of your imaging to assist in making a diagnosis.
Imaging tests can find large groups of cancer cells, but no imaging test can show a single cancer cell or even a few. In fact, it takes millions of cells to make a tumor big enough to show up on an imaging test. This is why treatment may continue even when cancer cells can no longer be seen on an imaging test.
Generally, CT scans are better at spatial resolution, while MRIs are better at contrast resolution. That means CT scans are good at showing us where the edges of things are — where this structure ends and that other one begins.