Imaging Reality: A review of COVID-19 Pandemic

Mohammad Mahdi Hanaei, Seyed Mehdi Mousavi, Nazanin Ebrahimi Ghasem Abadi, Chanour Tavakol, Seyedeh Maral Mousavi, Behnaz Ganbar-Moghaddam

Abstract


Recently, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been the main universal health concern and the most important challenge to the world. This disease affects all age groups, genders and, races. Due to lack of definitive medication detection of the disease in an early stage and prevention of its transmission plays an important role in its control. Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) and chest computed tomography (CT) are the most common diagnostic methods for COVID-19. Besides a review on the general founding of the COVID-19 pandemic, we tried to collect a hand on report focusing on radiological knowledge and its applications, limitations, and instructions.


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COVID-19; Radiology; Pandemic; Computed tomography

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