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Usefulness of Mobile Computed Tomography in Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pneumonia: A Case Series

  • Ji Young Rho (Department of Radiology, Wonkwang University School of Medicine Hospital) ;
  • Kwon-Ha Yoon (Department of Radiology, Wonkwang University School of Medicine Hospital) ;
  • Sooyeon Jeong (Department of Radiology, Wonkwang University School of Medicine Hospital) ;
  • Jae-Hoon Lee (Department of Internal Medicine, Wonkwang University School of Medicine Hospital) ;
  • Chul Park (Department of Internal Medicine, Wonkwang University School of Medicine Hospital) ;
  • Hye-Won Kim (Department of Radiology, Wonkwang University School of Medicine Hospital)
  • Received : 2020.04.13
  • Accepted : 2020.05.13
  • Published : 2020.08.01
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Abstract

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak has reached global pandemic status as announced by the World Health Organization, which currently recommends reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) as the standard diagnostic tool. However, although the RT-PCR test results may be found negative, there are cases that are found positive for COVID-19 pneumonia on computed tomography (CT) scan. CT is also useful in assessing the severity of COVID-19 pneumonia. When clinicians desire a CT scan of a patient with COVID-19 to monitor treatment response, a safe method for patient transport is necessary. To address the engagement of medical resources necessary to transport a patient with COVID-19, our institution has implemented the use of mobile CT. Therefore, we report two cases of COVID-19 pneumonia evaluated by using mobile cone-beam CT. Although mobile cone-beam CT had some limitations regarding its image quality such as scatter noise, motion and streak artifacts, and limited field of view compared with conventional multi-detector CT, both cases had acceptable image quality to establish the diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia. We report the usefulness of mobile cone-beam CT in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia.

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This study was supported by Wonkwang University 2018.

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