van den Hauwe Luc, Flanders Adam E.
Department of Radiology, Antwerp University Hospital—University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Department of Radiology, Division of Neuroradiology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
The imaging methods for evaluating patients with acute spinal trauma has dramatically changed in the last decade especially with the development of thin section multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) and isotropic datasets that provide high-resolution sagittal and coronal reformats. MDCT allows for a comprehensive assessment of spinal column injury that has largely supplanted radiography except in the pediatric population. MRI has become the procedure of choice for evaluation of the spinal cord and surrounding soft tissues when there is a suspected SCI.
在过去十年中，用于评估急性脊柱创伤患者的成像方法发生了巨大变化，尤其是随着薄层多探测器计算机断层扫描（MDCT）和各向同性数据集的发展，这些数据集可提供高分辨率的矢状面和冠状面重建图像。MDCT能够对脊柱损伤进行全面评估，除了儿科患者外，它在很大程度上已取代了X线摄影。当怀疑存在脊髓损伤（SCI）时，MRI已成为评估脊髓及周围软组织的首选检查方法。
