Virtual colonoscopy: Current status and future directions

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics of North America

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 773-795

  Burling, David ^a   Taylor, Stuart A ^b   Halligan, Steve ^b  

^a ST MARK S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FUTUROLOGY; HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRAINING;

CATHARTICS; COLONIC DISEASES; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; GASTROENTEROLOGY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTESTINAL POLYPS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 27644432121     PISSN: 10525157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.giec.2005.08.007     Document Type: Review

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