Virtual tagging for laxative-free CT colonography: Pilot evaluation

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1830-1838

  Näppi, Janne ^a   Yoshida, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bowel preparation; Computer aided detection; Fecal tagging; Partial volume effect; Virtual colonoscopy

Indexed keywords

BOWEL PREPARATION; COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION; FECAL TAGGING; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT; VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

BARIUM; IOHEXOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON; COLON POLYP; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FECES; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; RECTUM POLYP; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TUBE;

EID: 65449132378     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3113893     Document Type: Article

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