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http://dx.doi.org/10.7742/jksr.2022.16.7.889

Changes in the Comfort and Image Quality of the Patient According to the Application of Air Mattresses in the Computed Tomography Table  

Young-Hee, Lee (Department of Nursing, Dongnam Health University)
Yong-Ki, Lee (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Gachon Gil Hospital)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology / v.16, no.7, 2022 , pp. 889-896 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study attempted to evaluate the usefulness of the air mattress by analyzing the subjective comfort of the patient due to the application of the air mattress to the table of computed tomography through a questionnaire and analyzing the change in image quality through quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the patient's clinical images. The subjects who participated in the study were 221 men and 229 women, and the age range was from 18 to 86. To evaluate the change in image quality, a total of 150 patients, 50 patients per group, were selected for quantitative evaluation, and 20 patients per group, a total of 60 patients were selected for qualitative evaluation. As a result of this study, the subjective comfort of patients increased due to air mattresses, and there was no difference in image quality as a result of quantitative and qualitative evaluation of clinical images. From the above results, it is believed that the air mattress can be usefully applied in a way that can increase the subjective comfort of the patient without any harm to the diagnostic image.
Keywords
Computed Tomography; Table; Air mattress; SNR; CNR; Comfort;
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