Advantages of vehicle digital radiography in screening of pulmonary tuberculosis
SHANG Yan-song
ZHONG Da
WEI Wen-liang
ZHANG Guo-qin
CHEN Sheng-yu
Abstract：Objective To investigate the advantages of vehicle digital radiography(DR) in screening of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB).MethodsImage quality and final diagnosis of the subjects with abnormal primary reading were compared between vehicle DR and vehicle fluorescence X-ray.ResultsThe proportions of vehicle DR with excellent, good and bad image quality were 86.4%, 11.7% and 1.9%, respectively, and the proportions of vehicle fluorescence X-ray with excellent, good and bad image quality were 51.8%, 34.8% and 13.4%, respectively; the image quality of vehicle DR was significantly better than that of vehicle fluorescence X-ray (P<0.05). Among suspected subjects with TB shadow by primary radiography reading of vehicle DR, 17.1% were finally diagnosed with active pulmonary TB, and among suspected subjects with TB shadow by primary reading of vehicle fluorescence X-ray, 8.7% were finally diagnosed with active pulmonary TB; the former proportion was significantly higher than the latter(P<0.05).ConclusionsAs compared with traditional vehicle fluorescence X-ray, vehicle DR has better image quality and higher accuracy in TB diagnosis, so it has advantages in screening of pulmonary TB.
Keywords：tuberculosisdigital radiographychest disease
Publication Date：2016-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 164-166 )