Temporal and multiinstitutional quality assessment of CT colonography

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 191, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1503-1508

  Van Uitert, Robert L ^a   Summers, Ronald M ^a   White, Jacob M ^a   Deshpande, Keshav K ^a   Choi, J Richard ^b,c   Pickhardt, Perry J ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Colon; Colonography; CT; Quality; Virtual colonoscopy

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCENDING COLON; BODY POSTURE; COLON DILATATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING COLON; FEMALE; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; INTESTINE PREPARATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGMOID; SUPINE POSITION; TRANSVERSE COLON;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 55549125878     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.3591     Document Type: Article

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