id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-336453-cbq0ui4p Machitori, Akihiro Computed tomography surveillance helps tracking COVID-19 outbreak 2020-08-07 .txt text/plain 3802 186 49 PURPOSE: To reveal that a computed tomography surveillance program (CT-surveillance) could demonstrate the epidemiologic features of COVID-19 infection and simultaneously investigate the type and frequency of CT findings using clinical CT data. Using an online questionnaire, we asked Japanese board-certified radiologists to register their patients' information including patient age and sex, the CT examination date, the results of PCR test for COVID-19 infection, CT findings, and the postal code of the medical institution that performed the CT. We conducted the present study to reveal that CT-surveillance could demonstrate the epidemiologic features of COVID-19 infection as well as simultaneously investigate the type and frequency of characteristic imaging findings on CT by using clinical CT data. CT findings in CT surveillance might distinguish the group that is considered Fig. 2 The epidemic curve of the diurnal patient number in the CT surveillance (a) shows a distribution similar to that of the PCR surveillance (b). ./cache/cord-336453-cbq0ui4p.txt ./txt/cord-336453-cbq0ui4p.txt