Tagging-based, electronically cleansed CT colonography: Evaluation of patient comfort and image readability

Radiology

Volumn 239, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 149-159

  Zalis, Michael E ^a   Perumpillichira, James J ^a   Magee, Cordula ^a   Kohlberg, Gavriel ^a   Hahn, Peter F ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM SULFATE; IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM; IOHEXOL; IOPROMIDE; LAXATIVE; LOSO PREP; MAGNESIUM CITRATE;

ADULT; AGED; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONIC SUBTRACTION CLEANSING; ELECTRONICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTESTINE PREPARATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAL; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM;

AGED; BARIUM SULFATE; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 33645130889     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2383041308     Document Type: Review

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