A Retrospective Study of Chest Tomosynthesis as a Tool for Optimizing the use of Computed Tomography Resources and Reducing Patient Radiation Exposure

The present study indicates that CTS may have benefits for the radiological work-up as it has the potential to both optimize the use of CT resources and reduce the effective dose to the patient population. A drawback is that CTS examinations may fail to reveal pathology visible with CT and in clinically doubtful cases further investigations including other imaging procedures should be considered.