Novel method for digital subtraction of tagged stool in virtual colonoscopy

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6914, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Guendel, Lutz ^a   Suehling, Michael ^a   Eckert, Helmut ^a  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colon cancer; Electronic stool subtraction; Stool tagging; Virtual colonoscopy

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN BEAMS; ONCOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TISSUE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COLON CANCER; ELECTRONIC STOOL SUBTRACTION; STOOL TAGGING; VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 43749089361     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.769470     Document Type: Conference Paper

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