Dose optimization and reduction in CT of muscoloskeletal system including the spine
Résumé
Since its introduction in the 1970s, computerized tomography (CT) has played an important role in the diagnosis of musculoskeletal disorders. It rapidly became the examination of choice for the diagnosis of disc herniation, fractures, bone tumours and some developmental abnormalities. Although the image quality was altered by streak artefact associated with medical devices, CT was also indicated in postoperative imaging (Blum et al. 2000; Iochum et al. 2001; Cotten et al. 2002; Fayad et al. 2005a, 2005b).