Colonic polyps: Effect of attenuation of tagged fluid and viewing window on conspicuity and measurement - In vitro experiment with porcine colonic specimen

Radiology

Volumn 240, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 101-109

  Slater, Andrew ^b   Taylor, Stuart A ^a   Burling, David ^b   Gartner, Louise ^b   Scarth, Julia ^b   Halligan, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MARK S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARITOP; BARIUM SULFATE; DIATRIZOATE; READICAT;

ABDOMEN; ANIMAL TISSUE; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; BONE; CHI SQUARE TEST; COLON; COLON POLYP; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE MODEL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; LUNG; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; RATING SCALE; SWINE;

ANIMALS; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SWINE;

EID: 33745125348     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2401050984     Document Type: Article

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