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Spiral computed tomography (CT) also referred to as helical or volume-acquisition CT, is a newly introduced technique which allows continuous scanning of large volumes during a single acquisition (1). Use of the spiral technique has improved established CT applications by the reduction of motion artifacts, the elimination of respiratory misregistration artifacts and the production of overlapping images without additional X-ray exposure (2, 3). Moreover, high-quality multiplanar and three-dimensional (3D) images can be obtained from multiple transaxial images acquired in a single breath-hold (3–6).
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Bonomo, L. (1996). Pulmonary Embolism: Role of Spiral CT. In: Gullo, A. (eds) Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine — A.P.I.C.E.. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2203-4_23
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