Whole-body CT-based imaging algorithm for multiple trauma patients: Radiation dose and time to diagnosis

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 88, Issue 1047, 2015, Pages

  Gordic, S ^a   Alkadhi, H ^a   Hodel, S ^a   Simmen, H P ^a   Brueesch, M ^b   Frauenfelder, T ^a   Wanner, G ^a   Sprengel, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BODY REGIONS; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOCUSED ASSESSMENT WITH SONOGRAPHY FOR TRAUMA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; ORGAN INJURY; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TIME TO TREATMENT; TREATMENT INDICATION; WHOLE BODY CT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME; VERY ELDERLY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; RADIATION DOSAGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84923522147     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: 1748880X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr.20140616     Document Type: Article

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