Usefulness of Mobile Computed Tomography in Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pneumonia: A Case Series
- Author:
Ji Young RHO
1
;
Kwon-Ha YOON
;
Sooyeon JEONG
;
Jae-Hoon LEE
;
Chul PARK
;
Hye-Won KIM
Author Information
- Publication Type:Case Report
- From:Korean Journal of Radiology 2020;21(8):1018-1023
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
- Abstract: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak has reached global pandemic status as announced by the World HealthOrganization, which currently recommends reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) as the standard diagnostictool. However, although the RT-PCR test results may be found negative, there are cases that are found positive for COVID-19pneumonia on computed tomography (CT) scan. CT is also useful in assessing the severity of COVID-19 pneumonia. Whenclinicians desire a CT scan of a patient with COVID-19 to monitor treatment response, a safe method for patient transport isnecessary. To address the engagement of medical resources necessary to transport a patient with COVID-19, our institutionhas implemented the use of mobile CT. Therefore, we report two cases of COVID-19 pneumonia evaluated by using mobilecone-beam CT. Although mobile cone-beam CT had some limitations regarding its image quality such as scatter noise, motionand streak artifacts, and limited field of view compared with conventional multi-detector CT, both cases had acceptable imagequality to establish the diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia. We report the usefulness of mobile cone-beam CT in patients withCOVID-19 pneumonia.
