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Range--a technique for lumbar computerized tomography.

L M Kotzen·K Balakumar
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Range is a simple, technically reproducible, fast, comfortable and diagnostically reliable method for high resolution CT of the spine. The 5 mm slices at 3 mm intervals provide parallel overlapping slices which display the pathology in more than one slice, providing the abnormality is not seen only in the first or last cut at the L5-S1 or L4-L5 interspace, thus decreasing false positives due to artifact of normal anatomic structures.

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L M Kotzen, K Balakumar. Range--a technique for lumbar computerized tomography.. https://doi.org/10.1016/0730-4862(82)90008-7

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