Open AccessCT Imaging Research Progress in COVID-19
Author(s) -
Zhi Yong Shen,
Xun Cheng Yan,
Xiao Dong You,
Xuewen Zhang
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
current medical imaging reviews
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1875-6603
pISSN - 1573-4056
DOI - 10.2174/1573405617666210816091217
Subject(s) - covid-19 , pandemic , asymptomatic , medicine , epidemiology , disease , intensive care medicine , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , outbreak
: The highly contagious novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) broke out at the endof 2019 and has lasted for nearly one year, and the pandemic is still rampant around the world. Thediagnosis of COVID-19 is on the basis of the combination of epidemiological history, clinicalsymptoms, and laboratory and imaging examinations. Among them, imaging examination is of importancein the diagnosis of patients with suspected clinical cases, the investigation of asymptomaticinfections and family clustering, the judgment of patient recovery, rediagnosis after disease recurrence,and prognosis prediction. This article reviews the research progress of CT imaging examinationin the COVID-19 pandemic.