Initial clinical experience with a 64-MDCT whole-body scanner in an emergency department: Better time management and diagnostic quality?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 648-657

  Rieger, Michael ^a,c   Czermak, Benedikt ^a   El Attal, Rene ^a   Sumann, Günther ^b   Jaschke, Werner ^a   Freund, Martin ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c NONE   (Austria)

Author keywords

64 detector row MDCT; Diagnostic quality; Polytrauma; Time management; Workflow

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INJURY SEVERITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; TIME MANAGEMENT; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING; AUSTRIA; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; IMAGE PROCESSING; INJURY SCALE; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

ADULT; AUSTRIA; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 68149099285     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31816275f3     Document Type: Article

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