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Chest Ct Vs. Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction Testing For Covid Diagnosis, Megan Chlebove
Chest Ct Vs. Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction Testing For Covid Diagnosis, Megan Chlebove
Medical Imaging Senior Posters
This project explains reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction tests (RT-PCR), how they are used to test patients for coronavirus disease (COVID-19), and how chest computed tomography (CT) imaging can assist in diagnosis. False negatives in RT-PCR testing, ground glass opacities (GGOs), pros and cons of using CT and RT-PCR tests together for diagnosis, and the use of artificial intelligence to diagnose COVID on a CT image are also discussed. COVID is a respiratory disease discovered in December of 2019 in Wuhan, China and has spread to the entire world. RT-PCR tests are the main form of diagnosis of COVID and …