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Technologic advances in computed tomography.

T Villafana
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Technologic improvements in CT continue. As always, emphasis in the past year has been on reducing scan times. Units employing slip-ring technology are now available. This technology makes possible spiral scanning, which promises to further reduce the effects of image-degrading patient motion, as well as opening new possibilities for quantitative and dynamic CT studies. These applications are discussed here and an update on the advances on cine-CT and the Dynamic Spatial Reconstructor unit is provided. Three-dimensional reconstructions obtained at very short scan times promise to be of particular benefit for scanning the bronchial tree. Finally, patient doses of radiation in CT are discussed.

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T Villafana. 1991. Technologic advances in computed tomography.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2049277/

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