Whole-body CT in polytrauma patients: Effect of arm positioning on thoracic and abdominal image quality

Emergency Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 285-293

  Karlo, Christoph ^a   Gnannt, Ralph ^a   Frauenfelder, Thomas ^a   Leschka, Sebastian ^b   Brüesch, Martin ^c   Wanner, Guido A ^c   Alkadhi, Hatem ^a  

^a University Hospital Zurich Institut fur Diagnostische Radiologie   (Switzerland)

^b Institute of Radiology   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Arm positioning; Radiation dose; Trauma; Whole body computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; AORTA; ARM; ARM POSITIONING; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER; LUNG; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SPINE; SPLEEN; THORAX; WHOLE BODY CT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARM; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PATIENT POSITIONING; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 80052428533     PISSN: 10703004     EISSN: 14381435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10140-011-0948-5     Document Type: Article

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