Specific Anatomic Region	Lumbar spine
Application	Evaluate suspected fracture
Author	Fishman EK
Reference Source	Personal communication
Scanner Used	Siemens Somatom Plus 4
Injection Rate	N/A
Contrast Volume and Type	N/A
Area Scanned	Will vary but typically from T-12/L1 through L5-S1
Scan Delay	None
Length of Spiral (time)	30-40sec
Slice Thickness	3mm
Table Speed/Pitch	3-5mm/sec or a pitch of 1-1.6
Reconstruction Interval	2mm
3D Technique Used	VRT
Comment: The key to this study is a motion-free exam. A high-resolution bone algorithm can be used to optimize the transaxial data. Sagittal images are often very useful in these cases as well.