title: Benefits and unexpected artifacts of biplanar digital slot-scanning imaging in children.
abstract: Biplanar digital slot-scanning allows for relatively low-dose orthopedic imaging, an advantage in imaging children given the growing concerns regarding radiosensitivity. We have used this system for approximately 1 year for orthopedic imaging of the spine and lower extremities. We have noted advantages of using the digital slot-scanning system when compared with computed radiographic and standard digital radiographic imaging systems, but we also found unexpected but common imaging artifacts that are the direct result of the imaging method and that have not been reported. This pictorial essay serves to familiarize radiologists with the advantages of the digital slot-scanning system as well as imaging artifacts common with this new technology.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Imaging, Nemours/A.I duPont Hospital for Children, 1600 Rockland Road, Wilmington, DE, 19803, USA, sblumer@nemours.org.
authors.forename: Steven L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Blumer
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dinan
authors.forename: Leslie E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Grissom
mesh_terms: D016477:Artifacts; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002648:Child; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006801:Humans; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011856:Radiographic Image Enhancement / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011857:Radiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted