Posts Tagged ‘mdct’
Radiation Dose Drastically Reduced During Whole Chest MDCT
Emergency physicians who evaluate patients with nonspecific chest pain using whole chest multidetector CT (MDCT) combined with retrospective electrocardiogram (ECG) gating can reduce the patient radiation dose by 71 percent using MDCT combined with prospective ECG triggering instead, according to a new study.
Before And After Percutaneous Vertebroplasty, Cone-Beam CT Is Just As Useful As MDCT
Cone-beam CT which is believed to deliver less radiation than MDCT is just as useful when evaluating patients before and after percutaneous vertebroplasty according to a study performed at the Department of Clinical Radiology, Kyushu University, Fukoka, Japan. Percutaneous vertebroplasty is a minimally invasive cement augmentation technique to relieve pain in the back that is non-responsive to conservative treatment.
Rx Drug Compare
Translator
By N2H