Image of the Month

The evaluation of head and neck injuries at trauma centers requires both speed and clarity from diagnostic imaging. The advent of 64-slice multidetector CT, coupled with sophisticated postprocessing software and faster computers, provides trauma physicians and neurologists with both speed and high image quality. To find out in detail how 64-slice multidetector CT is making a difference in these cases at a level I trauma center, see Image of the Month, page 12.