A need in application of MSCT appears when it is not possible to visualize clearly some areas of a pancreas by the 3D-NLS or when there is an assumption of volumetric processes in a pancreas.

    MSCT was applied to all 30 patients (100%) in order to specify a character of pancreatic disease. According to acquired data, in case of absence of pancreas size increasing, MSCT has less informativity in comparison with three-dimensional reconstruction, because it does not provide clear information about changes in its parenchyma, when radiologic densitometric density of pancreas tissues is close to normal values.

     MSCT gives a possibility to diagnose on a stage of pancreatitis aggravation: at calcinosis, forming of pseudocysts, affection of surrounding organs or pancreas parenchyma atrophy. This method allows to evaluate affection of soft tissues beyond pancreas and surrounding structures in order to evaluate prevalence of the process and inflammatory response of parapancreatic tissue and retroperitoneal space. But sometimes fibrosis and inflammatory changes may imitate tumorous invasion.

    A disadvantage of this diagnostic method is its high costs. Another disadvantage is a strict binding of acquired images to transverse plane.