Electronic colon-cleansing for CT colonography: Diagnostic performance

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 359-364

  Juchems, Markus S ^a   Ernst, Andrea ^a   Johnson, Peter ^b   Virmani, Sunny ^b   Brambs, Hans Juergen ^a   Aschoff, Andrik J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Colon; CT; CT colonography; Electronic cleansing; Polyps

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLON LAVAGE; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTRONICS; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; BARIUM; BISACODYL; CATHARTICS; COLON; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIATRIZOATE; DIATRIZOATE MEGLUMINE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHOSPHATES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67449136276     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-008-9386-6     Document Type: Article

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