Question

Which of the following strategies would NOT help us differentiate possible pathology from a partial volume artifact?

1) inspection of adjacent slices
2) collect additional thinner slices through suspicious region
3) rescan and decrease pitch (without changing slice thickness)
4) None of the above

Answer 1

None of the provided strategies would help differentiate possible pathology from a partial volume artifact in medical imaging.

Step-by-step explanation:

In medical imaging, partial volume artifact occurs when a single pixel contains information from multiple structures or tissues. To differentiate possible pathology from a partial volume artifact, various strategies can be employed. However, among the options provided, none of the above strategies would help in this differentiation.

Inspection of adjacent slices could provide additional information about the surrounding structures but may not directly address the issue of partial volume artifact. Collecting additional thinner slices through the suspicious region might improve spatial resolution but may not specifically help differentiate between pathology and the artifact. Similarly, rescanning and decreasing pitch without changing the slice thickness may improve image quality but may not provide a definitive solution to differentiate between these two.