CT Imaging Research Progress in COVID-19

Zhi   Yong   Shen; Xun    Cheng   Yan; Xiao   Dong   You; Xue   Wen   Zhang

Abstract

The highly contagious novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) broke out at the end of 2019 and has lasted for nearly one year, and the pandemic is still rampant around the world. The diagnosis of COVID-19 is on the basis of the combination of epidemiological history, clinical symptoms, and laboratory and imaging examinations. Among them, imaging examination is of importance in the diagnosis of patients with suspected clinical cases, the investigation of asymptomatic infections and family clustering, the judgment of patient recovery, rediagnosis after disease recurrence, and prognosis prediction. This article reviews the research progress of CT imaging examination in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords: Novel coronavirus, pneumonia, computed tomography, diagnosis, chest radiograph, COVID-19.

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