Magnetic resonance colonography with limited bowel preparation: A comparison of three strategies

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 766-774

  Florie, Jasper ^a,b   Van Gelder, Rogier E ^a   Haberkorn, Brigitte ^a   Birnie, Erwin ^a   Lavini, Cristina ^a   Reitsma, Johannes B ^a   Stoker, Jaap ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Fecal tagging; Image quality; MR colonography; Patient experience

Indexed keywords

BARIUM SULFATE; GADOLINIUM; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; WATER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CHI SQUARE TEST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE PREPARATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE COLONOGRAPHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AGED; BARIUM SULFATE; COLON; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOSCOPY; CONTRAST MEDIA; FECES; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34047130221     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20880     Document Type: Article

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