Lesion conspicuity and efficiency of CT colonography with electronic cleansing based on a three-material transition model

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 191, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1493-1502

  Serlie, Iwo W O ^a,b,c   De Vries, Ayso H ^d   Van Vliet, Lucas J ^c   Nio, Chung Y ^d   Truyen, Roel ^a   Stoker, Jaap ^d   Vos, Franciscus M ^c,d  

^a PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CT colonography; Electronic cleansing; Lesion conspicuity; Material fractions; Partial volume effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLON INJURY; COLON LAVAGE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTRONICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE PREPARATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AIR; ALGORITHMS; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 55549083148     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.2776     Document Type: Article

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