Objective:The purpose of this study was to determine whether an in hospital transportable CT scanner can provide diagnostic brain images and to compare the quality of these images with those from a convertional fixed? platform CT scanner.
Subjects and Methods:Twenty seven patients with known or suspected intracranial pathology underwent imaging on a transportable scanner and a fixed? platform scanner within 1hr of each es from each CT examination were evaluated independently by two neuroradiologists who were unaware of patient picuousness of intracranial pathology and normal anatomy were rated on a 5? point scale (1 point 'optimal;5 points'poor or not visualized)istical comparisons were made using nonparametric tests.
Results:Seven CT scans were interpreted as showing normal findings and 20 scans revealed intracranial pathology on both CT e quality was higher on the fixed scanner(average rating'2.42 points'SE=0.12)than on the transportable scanner(average rating'3.10 points'SE=0.12(p=0.001)ction of the cerebellum'midbrain'and supratentorial gray? white matter was better on the fixed scanner(p＜0.05＝ver'we found no significant differences in detection of intracranial pathology between radiologists found images from both scanners to bediagnostic in all 27 patients.
Conclusion:Images of the brain on the transportable CT scanner were less clear than those on a fixed ver'images from the transportable CT scanner were diagnostic in 27 implications of this finding are important for the provision of CT services for critically ill patients who cannot be transported to the radiology department.
上面是AJR(美國放射學雜誌)中一段完整的英文摘要，從中可以看出其特點：①用詞簡練、準確；②時態為過去時；③不用第一人稱，多用被動語態；④方法和結果中強調方法及資料。對母語非的.作者來說，撰寫英文摘要的質量好壞直接與作者的英文水平有關，在這方面，只有多閱讀英文文獻，才能提高英文水平，從而寫出高質量的英文摘要。