Polyp size measurement at CT colonography: What do we know and what do we need to know?

Radiology

Volumn 255, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 707-720

  Summers, Ronald M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTIFACT; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ENDOSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MEASUREMENT; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME;

COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 77952704813     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.10090877     Document Type: Review

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