ReviewJournal of medical radiation sciences2019
Dose reduction in CT imaging for facial bone trauma in adults: A narrative literature review.
Review in Journal of medical radiation sciences, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.
- Diagnostic accuracy of physical examination findings for midfacial fractures: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Clinical oral investigations · 2022Pooled it
- Optimising Patient Safety During the Use of Intraoperative Imaging for the Surgical Management of Facial Fractures: A Pilot Study.Craniomaxillofacial trauma & reconstruction · 2026Article
- A review on artificial intelligence for the diagnosis of fractures in facial trauma imaging.Frontiers in artificial intelligence · 2023Review
- Feasibility of Pediatric Low-Dose Facial CT Reconstructed with Filtered Back Projection Using Adequate Kernels.Taehan Yongsang Uihakhoe chi · 2022Article
- Structural similarity analysis of midfacial fractures-a feasibility study.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2022Article
- Terminology describing the profession of Diagnostic Radiography.Journal of medical radiation sciences · 2019Article
- Terminology describing medical imaging professionals.Journal of medical radiation sciences · 2019Article
- Dose reduction in CT imaging for facial bone trauma in adults: A narrative literature review.Journal of medical radiation sciences · 2019Review
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- Erratum issuedCorrigendum.2019
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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Trauma to the facial area accounts for a significant number of admissions to the emergency department. Diagnostic imaging is almost always required, and is critical in determining patient management. Multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) appears consistently in the literature as the gold-standard imaging modality for facial bones, but results in a high radiation dose to the patient. This makes the application and advancement of dose reduction and dose optimisation methods vital. This narrative review presents a critical analysis of the literature concerning diagnostic imaging of facial bone trauma, with an emphasis on dose reduction methods for MDCT. Databases including Pubmed, Medline, Web of Science and Scopus were used to investigate this topic, with the key words: facial bone trauma, computed tomography (CT) imaging and dose reduction. Exclusion criteria included studies on nasal bone fracturing, dental imaging, elective surgeries and paediatric imaging. The literature shows overwhelming support for MDCT, given its accuracy, efficiency and ease of operation. Noise reducing reconstruction algorithms show promise as a successful method of dose reduction in facial bone imaging. Investigations of more innovative techniques also appear within the literature, including diagnostic cone-beam CT (CBCT), intraoperative CBCT and dual-source CT (DSCT), but further research is required to confirm their clinical value.
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