Virtual endoscopy of the urinary tract

Asian Journal of Andrology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 31-38

  Kagadis, George C ^a   Siablis, Dimitrios ^a   Liatsikos, Evangelos N ^a   Petsas, Theodore ^a   Nikiforidis, George C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Three dimensional imaging; Urethral stricture; Virtual endoscopy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BLADDER TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IONIZING RADIATION; KIDNEY PELVIS; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; SAFETY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; URETER STRICTURE; URETEROSCOPY; URETHRA STRICTURE; URETHROSCOPY; UROGENITAL ENDOSCOPY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

CYSTOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URETERAL DISEASES; URETHRAL DISEASES; UROLOGIC DISEASES;

EID: 30444452809     PISSN: 1008682X     EISSN: 17457262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-7262.2006.00096.x     Document Type: Review

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