Current role and future potential of computed tomographic colonography for colorectal polyp detection and colon cancer screening-incidental findings

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 280-286

  Sohns, Christian ^a   Heuser, Markus ^a   Sossalla, Samuel ^a   Wolff, Hendrik ^a   Obenauer, Silvia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colon cancer screening; Colorectal polyp detection; CT colonography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; HEALTH; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT); THREE DIMENSIONAL;

(OTDR) TECHNOLOGY; CLINICAL SITUATIONS; COLON CANCERS; COLONOGRAPHY; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY (CTC); CT COLONOGRAPHY; CT SCANNING; ELSEVIER (CO); IMAGING TOOLS; PATIENT CARE; POLYP DETECTION; SPIRAL CT; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3 D) IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHIC;

ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; CANCER SCREENING; CECUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COLON CANCER; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING COLON; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM POLYP; SIGMOID; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 46049085802     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2008.01.001     Document Type: Article

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