Influence of tagged fecal material on detectability of colorectal polyps at CT: Phantom study

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 191, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  De Vries, Ayso H ^a   Venema, Henk W ^a   Florie, Jasper ^a   Nio, Chung Y ^a   Stoker, Jaap ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bowel preparation; CT colonography; Dose reduction; Fecal tagging; Phantom study

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BULK DENSITY; CHEMICAL LABELING; COLON POLYP; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM POLYP; TAGGED FECES MATERIAL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 53249125059     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.3740     Document Type: Article

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