Snippet 22: What Defines an Ideal CT for Diffuse Lung Diseases


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This 16 mins snippet describes what it takes to obtain a high quality CT scan in a patient with suspected or known diffuse lung disease. Without a high quality scan, everything we do can be erroneous with missed diagnosis and mis-diagnosis.

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Technical and Practice Issues * Case 11: 62-years old misdiagnosed to have interstitial lung disease - mid-inspiratory and expiratory scans * Snippet 03: Radiation risk and CT chest * Case 23: 60-years old - 40-pack years smoker - right upper lobe nodule - resolved using “mean” reconstructions…

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