학술논문
Dark-field chest X-ray imaging for the assessment of COVID-19-pneumonia
Document Type
article
Author
Manuela Frank; Florian T. Gassert; Theresa Urban; Konstantin Willer; Wolfgang Noichl; Rafael Schick; Manuel Schultheiss; Manuel Viermetz; Bernhard Gleich; Fabio De Marco; Julia Herzen; Thomas Koehler; Klaus Jürgen Engel; Bernhard Renger; Felix G. Gassert; Andreas Sauter; Alexander A. Fingerle; Bernhard Haller; Marcus R. Makowski; Daniela Pfeiffer; Franz Pfeiffer
Source
Communications Medicine, Vol 2, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2022)
Subject
Language
English
ISSN
2730-664X
Abstract
Frank, Gassert et al. use dark-field chest X-ray imaging to assess COVID-19-pneumonia. Dark-field imaging has a higher sensitivity for COVID-19-pneumonia than attenuation-based imaging and provides an ultralow dose alternative to computed tomography imaging for that purpose.