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. 2021:1318:413-434.
doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-63761-3_24.

The Role of Medical Imaging in COVID-19

Houman Sotoudeh  1   2 , Masoumeh Gity  3   4
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The Role of Medical Imaging in COVID-19

Houman Sotoudeh et al. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2021.

Abstract

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic launched in the third decade of the twenty-first century and continued to present time to cause the worst challenges the modern medicine has ever encountered. Medical imaging is an essential part of the universal fight against this pandemic. In the absence of documented treatment and vaccination, early accurate diagnosis of infected patients is the backbone of this pandemic management. This chapter reviews different aspects of medical imaging in the context of COVID-19.

Keywords: COVID-19; CT; Chest X-ray; MRI; Medical imaging; Pandemic; SARS-CoV-2; Ultrasound.

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