title: Impact of obesity on medical imaging and image-guided intervention.
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.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  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.
authors.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
authors.forename: Raul N
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Uppot
authors.forename: Dushyant V
authors.initials: DV
authors.lastname: Sahani
authors.forename: Peter F
authors.initials: PF
authors.lastname: Hahn
authors.forename: Debra
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gervais
authors.forename: Peter R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Mueller
mesh_terms: D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011300:Preoperative Care / Q000379:methods*; D025321:Surgery, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D014187:Transportation of Patients / Q000379:methods*