title: Range--a technique for lumbar computerized tomography.
abstract: Range is a simple, technically reproducible, fast, comfortable and diagnostically reliable method for high resolution CT of the spine. The 5 mm slices at 3 mm intervals provide parallel overlapping slices which display the pathology in more than one slice, providing the abnormality is not seen only in the first or last cut at the L5-S1 or L4-L5 interspace, thus decreasing false positives due to artifact of normal anatomic structures.
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007405:Intervertebral Disc Displacement / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013115:Spinal Canal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013122:Spinal Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*