Dual-Energy Based Spectral Electronic Cleansing in Non-Cathartic Computed Tomography Colonography: An Emerging Novel Technique

Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 309-314

  Eliahou, Ruth ^a   Azraq, Yusef ^a   Carmi, Raz ^b   Mahgerefteh, Shmuel Y ^a   Sosna, Jacob ^a,c  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; BISACODYL; IODINE; MACROGOL; MAGNESIUM CITRATE; SENNA EXTRACT; SODIUM DIHYDROGEN PHOSPHATE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; LAXATIVE;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CANCER SCREENING; COLON LAVAGE; COLON POLYP; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; DIET RESTRICTION; DRUG ABSORPTION; HUMAN; HYPERPHOSPHATEMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NON CATHARTIC COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SAFETY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTRAL BASED ELECTRONIC CLEANSING; THRESHOLD BASED ELECTRONIC CLEANSING; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FACE; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY;

ARTIFACTS; CATHARTICS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FACE; HUMANS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77955335310     PISSN: 08872171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.sult.2010.05.005     Document Type: Article

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