Abstract
Computed tomography (CT) will be a prime topic at next week's Radiological Society of North America meeting in Chicago, and much of the discussion will focus on CT's role in diagnosing lumbar spine problems. "I think we are just seeing the tip of the iceberg" on this application of CT, suggests Jack L. Melamed, MD, chief, Department of Radiology, Grant Hospital, Chicago. Melamed, whose department has performed more than 1,000 lumbar spine scans in the past year, believes there is no question that this use of the latest CT scanners is as important as scans of the head with the earlier CT equipment. The third-generation GE CT/T 8800 scanner that Melamed and colleagues are using can provide images of less than 1 mm in diameter, he says, and allow radiologists to see aspects of the lumbar spinal region that are not as clearly distinguishable with myelograms. Furthermore, according to Melamed,
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