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A rare cause of tube arcing artifact seen in computed tomography image of a positron emission tomography/computed tomography scanner

Tube arcing artifact is known to be caused by a temporary short circuit in the X-ray tube causing momentary loss of X-ray output. It is seen as near-parallel and an equidistant streak pattern on transaxial computed tomography (CT) images and as a “horizontal” hypodense band on the coronal and sagitt...

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Autores principales: Mithun, Sneha, Jha, Ashish Kumar, Panchal, Ketan, Purandare, Nilendu C, Shah, Sneha, Agrawal, Archi, Rangarajan, Venkatesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4813068/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27081241
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.178368