Contamination inside CT gantry in the SARS-CoV-2 era

Contamination inside CT gantry in the SARS-CoV-2 era

Abstract We investigated whether the internal gantry components of our computed tomography (CT) scanner contain severe acute respiratory syndrome 2 (SARS-CoV-2) ribonucleic acid (RNA), bacterial or fungal agents. From 1 to 27 March 2020, we performed 180 examinations of patients with confirmed SARS-...

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Main Authors: João Matos, Francesco Paparo, Marco Mori, Alessio Veneziano, Marina Sartini, Maria Luisa Cristina, Gian Andrea Rollandi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2020-10-01
Series:European Radiology Experimental
Subjects:
COVID-19
Patient safety
Safety management
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Tomography scanners (x-ray computed)
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41747-020-00182-1

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