Properly accommodating large patients, adjusting equipment settings, and pre-planning are necessary to obtain diagnostic quality images and perform safe image-guided interventions in obese patients.
Obese patients challenge imaging departments in their ability to obtain diagnostic quality images and to perform image-guided interventions. These technical challenges include properly accommodating large patients on imaging equipment, adjusting equipment settings to address imaging limitations, and pre-planning and preparation for image-guided interventions to insure safe and successful outcomes. Knowing and addressing these challenges can result in successfully addressing the imaging and image-guided interventions needs of obese patients.
Raul N. Uppot (Tue,) studied this question.
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