This study reviews the initial clinical experience using a portable computed tomographic (CT) scanner in the trauma resuscitation unit (TRU), intensive care units (ICUs), and operating rooms (ORs) of a large trauma center. Data were collected on the first 200 patients scanned within the trauma center (including 92 in the TRU, 92 in the ICUs, and 16 in the ORs) over the first 5 months of operation. Evaluation forms were completed by interpreting radiologists, CT technicians operating the system, and nurses~clinicians involved with patients being scanned. Information sought included subjective image quality, ease of use, software and hardware limitations, accessibility to and monitoring of patients during scanning, mobility, and perceived advantages or limitations compared to

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