CT of the musculoskeletal system: What is left is the days of MRI?
Autor: | Tom Marshall, Philip W. P. Bearcroft, A. T. H. West |
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Rok vydání: | 2008 |
Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Ct technology Computed tomography computer.software_genre Voxel Humans Medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Musculoskeletal Diseases Practice Patterns Physicians' Neuroradiology medicine.diagnostic_test Practice patterns business.industry Magnetic resonance imaging General Medicine Magnetic Resonance Imaging Europe Tomography Radiology Tomography X-Ray Computed business Nuclear medicine computer Preclinical imaging Forecasting |
Zdroj: | European Radiology. 19:152-164 |
ISSN: | 1432-1084 0938-7994 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s00330-008-1129-0 |
Popis: | Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays a central role in the modern imaging of musculoskeletal disorders, due to its ability to produce multiplanar images and characterise soft tissues accurately. However, computed tomography (CT) still has an important role to play, not merely as an alternative to MRI, but as being the preferred imaging investigation in some situations. This article briefly reviews the history of CT technology, the technical factors involved and a number of current applications, as well as looking at future areas where CT may be employed. The advent of ever-increasing numbers of rows of detectors has opened up more possible uses for CT technology. However, diagnostic images may be obtained from CT systems with four rows of detectors or more, and their ability to produce near isotropic voxels and therefore multiplanar reformats. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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