Items tagged “ct”
313 results found
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Facial nerve anatomy - labeled CT
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30 Apr 2014
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Small bowel lipoma
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20 May 2014
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Displaced C7 spinous process (clay-shoveler) fracture
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30 Jun 2014
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Infectious colitis
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02 Oct 2014
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Iodinated contrast-induced thyrotoxicosis
Iodinated contrast-induced thyrotoxicosis is rare and may occur in patients with pre-existing thyroid disease and through complications of thyrotoxicosis (e.g. cardiac arrhythmia) may be fatal. Patients with a normal thyroid gland are unaffected.
Patients with existing thyrotoxicosis should no...
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Meglumine iotroxate (Biliscopin)
Meglumine iotroxate (BiliscopinTM) is an iodinated, intravenous contrast agent that is preferentially excreted into the biliary tree and is used in CT intravenous cholangiography.
The typical dose is 100 mL Biliscopin (105 mg meglumine iotroxate/mL; 5.0 g iodine), which is administered via slow...
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Acute pyelonephritis
Published
01 Feb 2015
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Fungal sinusitis - allergic
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29 Jan 2015
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Hemorrhagic stroke - basal ganglia
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06 Feb 2015
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Normal CT head and CT venogram
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06 Feb 2015
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Renal forniceal rupture
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06 Mar 2015
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Acute left middle cerebral artery territory ischemic stroke
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17 Apr 2015
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Acute bilateral pyelonephritis
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27 May 2015
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Hounsfield unit
Hounsfield units (HU) are a dimensionless unit universally used in computed tomography (CT) scanning to express CT numbers in a standardized and convenient form. Hounsfield units are obtained from a linear transformation of the measured attenuation coefficients 1. This transformation (figure 1) ...
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Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
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11 Jul 2015
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Helical CT image acquisition
Helical (a.k.a. spiral) CT image acquisition was a major advance on the earlier stepwise ("stop and shoot") method.
With helical CT, the patient is moved through a rotating x-ray beam and detector set. From the perspective of the patient, the x-ray beam from the CT traces a helical path. The he...
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Lung hyperinflation
Lung hyperinflation is a common feature of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). It is also linked to aging and other chronic diseases that cause airflow obstruction.
Pathology
The airflow limitation during expiration is produced by two factors:
destruction of the lung p...
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Paradoxical middle turbinate
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08 Feb 2017
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Pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis: early phase
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04 Apr 2017
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Impacted permanent canine with deciduous canine retention
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14 Sep 2018
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