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Multislice CT in Clinical Practice

What can you scan?

What's so good about multislice CT?

“If you buy a multislice CT you will reduce your waiting list”

The clinical benefits of multislice CT

1. Increasing Throughput

Pre-Protocolling

Pre-Protocolling benefits

Abdo / Pelvic Oral Prep

Giving IV Contrast

Cannulation Room

Scan-and-Send policy

Our Experience…

2. Limiting Radiation Doses

Pre Contrast Scans

Understand your scan parameters

mA Modulation or Automatic Exposure Control

Optimising Diagnostic Yield

Improving the Effects of IV Contrast

Z-Axis Resolution vs CNR

Z-Axis Resolution

Thinner Beam Collimation

CNR

Collimation

And the optimum beam collimation is…

Soft Copy Reporting

‘Tile’ Mode

‘Stack’ mode and MPR

“In the Volume” example 1 - Axial Slab MIP

“In the Volume” example 2 - Coronal Slab VR

“So how am I supposed to look at 800 images?”

Summary

Thank You For Listening

Author: Matthew Benbow, Royal Bournemouth Hospital

E-mail: impact@impactscan.org

Homepage: http://www.impactscan.org/

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