Initial clinical experience with high-pitch dual-source CT as a rapid technique for thoraco-abdominal evaluation in awake infants and young children

•High-pitch DSCT protocols enable significant decrease in mean scan time in pediatrics. •High-pitch DSCT provides excellent image quality using free-breathing technique. •Objective noise was 30% lower in HP chest CT compared to SP chest CT (P=0.7). •Mean CNR was 20% lower in SP abdomen CT compared to HPCT (P=0.1). •No significant difference in SSDE between high-pitch and standard-pitch studies (P=0.3). AIM To evaluate dual-source high-pitch...