Screening CT colonography: How I do it

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 290-298

  Pickhardt, Perry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Colorectal polyps; CT colonography; Screening; Virtual colonoscopy

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; DIATRIZOATE; SODIUM DIHYDROGEN PHOSPHATE;

CANCER SCREENING; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTESTINE PREPARATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INSUFFLATION; MASS SCREENING; POSTURE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 34547596744     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.2136     Document Type: Review

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