Impact of obesity on medical imaging and image-guided intervention

被引：151

作者：

Uppot, Raul N.

Sahani, Dushyant V.

Hahn, Peter F.

Gervais, Debra

Mueller, Peter R.

机构：

[1] Harvard Univ, Sch Med, Dept Radiol, Div Abdominal Imaging & Intervent Radiol, Boston, MA 02114 USA

[2] Massachusetts Gen Hosp, Boston, MA 02114 USA

来源：

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ROENTGENOLOGY | 2007年 / 188卷 / 02期

关键词：

abdominal imaging; body imaging; interventional radiology; obesity; radiology practice; technologists;

D O I：

10.2214/AJR.06.0409

中图分类号：

R8 [特种医学]; R445 [影像诊断学];

学科分类号：

1002 ; 100207 ; 1009 ;

摘要：

OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this article is to discuss the impact of obesity on medical imaging and provide some solutions that are currently available to tackle the challenges of imaging obese patients. CONCLUSION. Increasingly, radiologists are asked to image morbidly obese patients. The challenges facing radiology departments include difficulties in transporting patients to the department, inability to accommodate large patients on currently designed imaging equipment, and difficulties in acquiring desired image quality.

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页码：433 / 440

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