Colorectal polyps on portal phase contrast-enhanced CT colonography: Lesion attenuation and distinction from tagged feces

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 35-40

  Seung, Soo Lee ^a   Park, Seong Ho ^a   Choi, Eugene K ^b   So, Yeon Kim ^a   Kim, Min Ju ^a   Kyoung, Ho Lee ^c   Young, Hoon Kim ^c  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Colorectal polyps; CT colonography; Fecal tagging

Indexed keywords

BARIUM SULFATE; IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPE; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FECES; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM POLYP;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; CONTRAST MEDIA; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RECTAL DISEASES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34250874545     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.2076     Document Type: Article

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