Diagnosis and treatment planning of acute aortic emergencies using a handheld DICOM viewer

AF Choudhri, PT Norton, TM Carr, JR Stone… - Emergency …, 2013 - Springer
Acute aortic syndromes and traumatic aortic injury are often diagnosed on CT angiography,
possibly requiring emergent intervention. Advances in handheld computing have created …

Quantification of pleural effusion from single area measurements on CT

B Veljkovic, S Franckenberg, GM Hatch, M Bucher… - Emergency …, 2013 - Springer
The objective of this study was to determine if area measurements of pleural fluid on
computed tomography (CT) reflect the actual pleural fluid volume (PEvol) as measured at …

Evaluation of novice reader diagnostic performance in coronary CT angiography using an advanced cardiac software package

P Dankerl, M Hammon, A Tsymbal, A Cavallaro… - International Journal of …, 2014 - Springer
Purpose The purpose of this research was to evaluate whether a commercially available
advanced cardiac software package for coronary CT angiography (CTA) interpretation may …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of cardiac and aortic injuries in trauma with multi-detector computed tomography

AK Shergill, T Maraj, MS Barszczyk… - Journal of Clinical …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Blunt and penetrating cardiovascular (CV) injuries are associated with a high morbidity and
mortality. Rapid detection of these injuries in trauma is critical for patient survival. The advent …

Can non-contrast-enhanced CT (NECT) triage patients suspected of having non-traumatic acute aortic syndromes (AAS)?

PR Vantine, JK Rosenblum, WG Schaeffer… - Emergency …, 2015 - Springer
This work was conducted to determine whether non-contrast-enhanced CT (NECT) of
patients with suspected acute aortic syndrome (AAS) can identify patients with a very low …