DTS abdominal imaging has been demonstrated to be remarkably successful in aiding in the diagnosis of urinary tract calculus disease^{1, 2}. In fact, studies have demonstrated that digital tomosynthesis improves the detection and location of urinary calculi when compared to digital radiography with only a minimal increase in patient effective radiation exposure dose.

Additionally, it has been shown that DTS abdominal imaging demonstrated improved evaluation of various other abdominal anatomical structures, such as pancreato-biliary and gastrointestinal tracts. Specifically, digital tomosynthesis has been demonstrated to improve evaluation of these organ systems when the patient has significant superimposition of bowel gas, and these are notoriously difficult to assess without contrast and/or associated with invasive procedures and in the evaluation of tumors of the biliary tract in percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography examinations³.

1 Wollin Gupta et al 2018. Abdominal Radiography with Digital Tomosynthesis: An alternative to Computed Tomography for the Identification of Urinary Calculi Urology 120,56–61. 2018).

2 Winship, B, Raudabaugh, J et al 2019. Pelvic Digital tomosynthesis for the evaluation of distal ureteral calculus: Organ- specific doses and effective dose (ED), compared with Non-contrast CT. J.Urol 201; Supplement 4, e395-396.

_{3 Machida H, Yuhara T, Tamura M, et al. Whole-Body Clinical Applications of Digital Tomosynthesis. Radiographics 2016;36:735-50.}