Impact of obesity on medical imaging and image-guided intervention |
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| Authors: | Uppot Raul N Sahani Dushyant V Hahn Peter F Gervais Debra Mueller Peter R |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Radiology, Division of Abdominal Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit St., White 270, Boston, MA 02114, USA. ruppot@partners.org |
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| Abstract: | OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this article is to discuss the impact of obesity on medical imaging and provide some solutions that are currently available to tackle the challenges of imaging obese patients. CONCLUSION: Increasingly, radiologists are asked to image morbidly obese patients. The challenges facing radiology departments include difficulties in transporting patients to the department, inability to accommodate large patients on currently designed imaging equipment, and difficulties in acquiring desired image quality. |
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