The Optical Society ( OSA : http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id...be6cc013ec9ca5 ) today commended the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), both sponsors of the National Lung Screening Trial : http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id...fb2da14fb9ec91 , for announcing results demonstrating significantly fewer lung cancer deaths among patients screened with Computed Tomography (CT) than patients screened with the traditional method of chest X-rays. CT scanning is a medical technology that uses X-rays and sophisticated software to create high-resolution, 3-D images of the internal physiology of the human body. Through its innovative Interactive Scientific Publishing ( ISP : http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id...15dba6122365f5 ) initiative, OSA supports medical researchers
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