Beware of Over-Enthusiasm for CT Scans!
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Computerised Tomography (CT) Scans
Conventional CT scan the scan is taken slice by slice and after each slice the scan stops and moves down to the next slice eg, from the top of the abdomen down to the pelvis. This requires patients to hold their breath to avoid movement artefact. Spiral/helical CT scan this is a continuous scan which is taken in a spiral fashion. It is a much quicker process and the scanned images are contiguous.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Open Access Journal of Surgery
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2476-1346
DOI: 10.19080/oajs.2016.01.555556