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Trends in oncological CT imaging: clinical application of multidetector-row CT and 3D-CT imaging

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Computed tomography (CT) plays an essential role in oncological imaging as the modality of screening for malignancies, map** out the treatment strategy at staging, assessing response to the treatment, and following up patient outcome after the treatment. The advent of multidetector-row CT (MDCT) has brought about dramatic changes in clinical oncological imaging. The very superior temporal and spatial resolution of MDCT has transformed CT imaging from a transaxial cross-sectional technique into an isotropic volume-imaging technique. MDCT facilitates multiphasic contrast-enhanced study for a wide range of body scanning in a single examination, as well as providing flexibility of multidirectional reconstruction and high-quality three-dimensional imaging. With increases in the number of detector rows year by year, systems with 64-detector rows have become commercially available in 2006. The purpose of this article is to review the status of CT imaging in oncological imaging: (1) to outline the impact of MDCT, focusing on oncological imaging and (2) to review the clinical applications of oncological CT imaging with MDCT.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Ten-noudai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8575, Japan

    Takuya Ueda, Kensaku Mori & Manabu Minami

  2. Department of Radiology, Chiba University Hospital, Chiba, Japan

    Ken Motoori

  3. Department of Radiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

    Hisao Ito

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Ueda, T., Mori, K., Minami, M. et al. Trends in oncological CT imaging: clinical application of multidetector-row CT and 3D-CT imaging. Int J Clin Oncol 11, 268–277 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10147-006-0586-1

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