CT colonography: Where have we been and where are we going?

Radiology

Volumn 237, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 819-833

  Macari, Michael ^a,b   Bini, Edmund J ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; COLON DILATATION; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; REIMBURSEMENT; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING TEST;

COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 27744470873     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2373041717     Document Type: Review

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