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Multislice CT angiography

¹ Institute of Clinical Radiology, University of Munich, Klinikum Grosshadern, Marchioninistrasse 15, 81377 Munich and ² Siemens Medical Engineering, Division CT, Forchheim, Germany

• Multislice CT uses the basic principles of spiral CT, but allows more rapid acquisition of multiple data sets, making scan times shorter and artefact less likely.
  
• Multislice technology allows for improved image quality in breathless and uncooperative patients.
  
• In the diagnosis of pulmonary embolus, segmental and subsegmental detail is improved.
  
• Cardiac imaging is improved by ECG gating.
  
• Images similar to catheter angiograms can be obtained in the extremities and the cervical arteries.
  
• In trauma cases, a single multislice CT investigation may be able to replace a number of modalities that would previously have been necessary.
  

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