Detectability of small and flat polyps in MDCT colonography using 2D and 3D imaging tools: Results from a phantom study

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 185, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1582-1589

  Mang, Thomas G ^a   Schaefer Prokop, Cornelia ^b   Maier, Andrea ^a   Schober, Ewald ^a   Lechner, Gerhard ^a   Prokop, Mathias ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; COLON POLYP; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IN VITRO STUDY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE;

ANIMALS; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SWINE;

EID: 33644826217     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.04.1519     Document Type: Review

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