We studied the value of CT scans for all children referred because of headache to one secondary and one tertiary pediatric centre during a 1 year period. Of 117 children who were seen by the Pediatric Neurology Service, at the I.W.K. Children's Hospital, 4 had CT scans and only 1 of these was abnormal. The consultant Pediatrician saw 40 children because of headache. CT scans were done on 3 of t...

Learning objectives • To evaluate indications for PET-CT in plasma cell dyscrasias and its added value over other imaging modalities with review of literature based evidence and reference to the RCR/RCP guidelines. • To discuss the use of PET-CT and subsequent clinical impact at our institution with pictorial illustration. • To discuss the limitations and potential pitfalls of PET-CT with picto...

Objectives. Incidental findings on computed tomography (CT) scans are common. We sought to examine rates of findings and disclosure among discharged patients who received a CT scan in the ED. Methods. Retrospective chart review (Aug-Oct 2009) of 600 patients age 18 and older discharged home from an urban Level 1 trauma center. CT reports were used to identify incidental findings and discharge p...

OBJECTIVE Since its introduction early in the 1990s, helical CT has become the predominant technology for obtaining CT images for medical applications. Recent improvements in the temporal resolution of helical CT (subsecond) and the addition of retrospective cardiac gating are combined in this report evaluating cardiac-gated helical CT for quantifying coronary artery calcium. We compare total c...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Studies have looked at the accuracy of radiologic interpretations by radiology residents as compared with staff radiologists with regard to emergency room plain films, emergency room body CT scans, and trauma head CT scans; however, to our knowledge, no study has evaluated on-call resident interpretations of all types of neuroradiologic CT scans. Both as a part of our dep...

OBJECTIVE The study goal was to determine whether clinical symptoms, physical findings, or laboratory values predict the usefulness of abdominal computed tomography (CT) scans in children. METHODS We conducted a retrospective review of pediatric patients who received an abdominal CT scan between June 2009 and November 2011 at an urban medical center. A panel of pediatric hospitalists independ...

the aim of this study was to reveal biometric peculiarities of new zealand white rabbit antebrachium (radius and ulna) by means of three-dimensional (3d) reconstruction of multidetector computed tomography (mdct) images. under general anesthesia, the antebrachiums of a total of sixteen rabbits of both sexes were scanned with a general diagnostic mdct. biometric measurements of the reconstructed...