Tissue transition projection (TTP) of the intestines

European Radiology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 806-810

  Rogalla, P ^a   Bender, A ^a   Bick, U ^a   Huitema, A ^b   Terwisscha Van Scheltinga, J ^b   Hamm, B ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Colon; Postprocessing; Small bowel; Spiral CT; Translucent imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTESTINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; COLON; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOSCOPY; CONTRAST MEDIA; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTESTINE, SMALL; INTESTINES; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034030884     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003300051008     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Buckley JA, Scott WW Jr, Siegelman SS, Kuhlman JE, Urban BA, Bluemke DA, Fishman EK (1994) Pulmonary nodules: effect of increased data sampling on detection with spiral CT and confidence in diagnosis. Radiology 196: 395-400
2. Urban BA, Fishman EK, Kuhlman JE, Kawashima A, Hennessey JG, Siegelman SS (1993) Detection of focal hepatic lesions with spiral CT: comparison of 4-and 8-mm interscan spacing. AJR 160: 783-785
3. Rogalla P, Mutze S, Hamm B (1997) Body CT: State-of-the-art, 2nd edn. Protocols for long-spiral CT, short-spiral CT, incremental CT. Zuckschwerdt, Munich, Germany
4. Bhalla M, Naidich DP, McGuinness G, Gruden JF, Leitman BS, McCauley DI (1996) Diffuse lung disease: assessment with helical CT: preliminary observations of the role of maximum and minimum intensity projection images. Radiology 200: 341-347
5. Remy-Jardin M, Remy J, Artaud D, Deschildre F, Duhamel A (1996) Diffuse infiltrative lung disease: clinical value of sliding-thin-slab maximum intensity projection CT scans in the detection of mild micronodular patterns. Radiology 200: 333-339
6. Napel S, Rubin GD, Jeffrey RB Jr (1993) STS-MIP: a new reconstruction technique for CT of the chest. J Comput Assist Tomogr 17: 832-838
7. Strong AB, Lobregt S, Zonneveld FW (1990) Applications of three-dimensional display techniques in medical imaging. J Biomed Eng 12: 233-238
8. Soyer P, Heath D, Bluemke DA, Choti MA, Kuhlman JE, Reichle R, Fishman EK (1996) Three-dimensional helical CT of intrahepatic venous structures: comparison of three rendering techniques. J Comput Assist Tomogr 20: 122-127
9. Udupa JK, Hung H, Chuang K (1991) Surface and volume rendering in 3D imaging: a comparison. J Digit Imaging 4: 159-168
10. Semwal SK, Barnhart BK (1995) Ray casting and the enclosing-net algorithm for extracting shapes from volume data. Comput Biol Med 25: 261-276
11. Scharling ES, Wolfman NT, Bechtold RE (1996) Computed tomography evaluation of colorectal carcinoma. Semin Roentgenol 31: 142-153
12. Dessl A, Giacomuzzi SM, Springer P, Stoeger A, Pototschnig C, Volklein C, Schreder SG, Jaschke W (1997) Virtuelle Endoskopie mittels Postprocessing helikaler CT-Datensätze. Akt Radiol 7: 216-221
13. Rodenwaldt J, Kopka L, Roedel R, Grabbe E (1996) Three-dimensional surface imaging of the larynx and trachea by spiral CT: virtual endoscopy. Röfo 165: 80-83
14. Höhne KH, Bomans M, Pommert A, Riemer M, Schiers C, Tiede U, Wiebecke G (1990) 3D visualization of tomographic volume data using the generalized voxel model. Vis Comput 6: 28-36
15. Terwisscha van Scheltinga J, Bosma M, Smit J, Lobregt S (1997) Image quality improvements in volume rendering. Proc 4th Conf Visualization in Biomedical Computing, Hamburg, 22-25 September, pp 87-92
16. Levoy M (1988) Display of surfaces from volume data. IEEE Comput Graph Appl 8: 29-37
17. Fuchs H, Kedem ZM, Uselton SP (1977) Optimal surface reconstruction from planar contours. Communications ACM 5: 693-702
18. Ney DR, Fishman EK, Magid D, Drebin R (1990) Volumetric rendering of computed tomography data: principles and techniques. IEEE Comput Graph Appl 9: 24-32
19. Rogalla P, Werner-Rustner M, Huitema A, van Est A, Meiri N, Hamm B (1998) Virtual endoscopy of the small bowel: phantom study and preliminary clinical results. Eur Radiol 8: 563-567
20. McFarland EG, Brink JA, Loh J et al. (1997) Visualization of colorectal polyps with spiral CT colography: evaluation of processing parameters with perspective volume rendering. Radiology 205: 701-707
21. Udupa JK, Odhner D (1993) Shell rendering. IEEE Comput Graph Appl 13: 58-67
22. Hara AK, Johnson CD, Reed JE et al. (1996) Detection of colorectal polyps by computed tomographic colography: feasibility of a novel technique. Gastroenterology 110: 284-290
23. McFarland EG, Wang G, Brink JA, Balfe DM, Heiken JP, Vannier MW (1997) Spiral CT colonography: central axis determination and digital unraveling of the colon. Acad Radiol 4: 367-373