BACKGROUND Model-based iterative reconstruction (MBIR) reduces image noise and improves image quality (IQ) but its influence on post-processing tools including maximal intensity projection (MIP) and minimal intensity projection (mIP) remains unknown. PURPOSE To evaluate the influence on IQ of MBIR on native, mIP, MIP axial and coronal reformats of reduced dose computed tomography (RD-CT) ches...

conclusions performing routine chest and abdominopelvic ct-scan in conscious blunt trauma patients decreases the hospitalization time but has no effect on patient complications and final outcome. using a selective approach and performing ct-scan only for symptomatic patients, would be an appropriate option to decrease radiation dose and facility overuse. nevertheless, the concern of missing occ...

Between 1980 and 1986, 58 patients (23 women and 35 men) had coronal CT scans of the sella turcica for suspected growth hormone-secreting adenoma and underwent transsphenoidal exploration. The CT examinations were performed with a fourth-generation EMI scanner (CT 7070), and reports of the preoperative CT were compared with the findings at transsphenoidal exploration. The same neurosurgeon perf...

The article discusses the possibilities of computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging when examining patients in an ENT clinic. authors’ materials cover complex observations diseases nose paranasal sinuses. were operated on, which made it possible to compare data radiation studies with operational findings cytological material. CT scan coronal projection allows clarify diagnosis, determ...

A hemodialysis patient presented with an abnormal CXR (Panel A) 13 years after coronary artery bypass grafting and a CT scan was performed (Panel B). Maximal-intensity-projection (Panel C) and 3D reconstructions (Panel D) revealed a large aneurysm, containing thrombus, arising from the vein graft to his right coronary artery (Fig. 1). Fig. 1. (A) Chest radiograph (PA) showing the abnormal right...

by producing undistorted three-dimensional images of the area under examination, cone-beam computed tomography (cbct) systems have met many of the limitations of conventional radiography. these systems produce images with small field of view at low radiation doses with adequate spatial resolution that are suitable for many applications in endodontics from diagnosis to treatment and follow-up. t...

computed tomography (ct) is now the primary diagnostic method for head trauma because of its ability to demonstrate the nature, extent, sites, and multiplicity of brain injuries. although there have been numerous reports on the ct findings of most types of intracranial injury, the findings in brainstem injury have not been well described. this study aimed at comparing the autopsy findings of br...