Abstract: At the end of December 2019, unidentified pneumonia cases were found in Wuhan disease prevention center of Hubei Province. On January 7, 2020, China Center for Disease Control and Prevention successfully isolated the first strain of 2019-nCoV, which was confirmed to be a new coronavirus. 2019-nCoV was named for the new coronavirus by the World Health Organization. This coronavirus is spreading across the whole China rapidly through droplet transmission and contact transmission, and the infected cases reveal a rising tendency. Standard X-ray and CT examination techniques are confirmed as effective methods for the screening and diagnosis of infected cases. To prevent the spread of 2019-nCoV, prepare standard imaging examinations, and effectively reduce the infection risk of radiologists and technologists, an Expert consensus of radiological examination scheme and infection prevention of coronavirus disease 2019 was summarized under the endeavor of many radiologists and technologists, aiming to standardize the imaging examinations and guide the prevention and control work in a radiology department.

Key words: 2019-nCoV, Coronavirus disease 2019, Tomography, X-ray computed, Prevention of infections, Expert consensus