{"id":148694,"date":"2019-08-25T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mc.vanderbilt.edu\/myvumc\/index.html?article=22993"},"modified":"2019-08-25T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T00:00:00","slug":"new-ct-scanner-eases-need-for-young-children-to-stay-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/2019\/08\/new-ct-scanner-eases-need-for-young-children-to-stay-still\/","title":{"rendered":"New CT scanner eases need for young children to stay still"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mc.vanderbilt.edu\/myvumc\/index.html?article=22993\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mc.vanderbilt.edu\/common\/imageresizer\/image.php?image=\/documents\/myvumc\/images\/Childrens-CT-scan-USE-AR0319_edited-1.jpg&#038;width=100&#038;height=52&#038;hash=586a5c72d6a90e3dce3497995ef3f364\" align=\"left\" height=\"52\" width=\"100\" alt=\"MyVUMC Photo\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Traditional computed tomography (CT) imaging requires patients to stay still or hold their breath for periods of time as the scan is performed so a clear image is obtained the first time. For young children and\/or infants, staying still or not crying can be a challenge, and getting the best image the first try is important to reduce unnecessary, repeated radiation exposure.<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional computed tomography (CT) imaging requires patients to stay still or hold their breath for periods of time as the scan is performed so a clear image is obtained the first time. For young children and\/or infants, staying still or not crying c&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/2019\/08\/new-ct-scanner-eases-need-for-young-children-to-stay-still\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5910,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148695,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148694\/revisions\/148695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}