Diagnostic accuracy of translucency rendering to differentiate polyps from pseudopolyps at 3D endoluminal CT colonography: A feasibility study;Accuratezza diagnostica del translucency rendering nella diagnosi differenziale tra polipi e formazioni pseudopolipoidi all'analisi tridimensionale con colografia TC: studio di fattibilità

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 758-770

  Guerrisi, A ^a   Marin, D ^a,b   Laghi, A ^a   Di Martino, M ^a   Iafrate, F ^a   Iannaccone, R ^a   Catalano, C ^a   Passariello, R ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CT colonography; Three dimensional (3D) analysis; Translucency rendering

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; DIATRIZOATE;

ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AREA UNDER CURVE; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLONOSCOPY; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIATRIZOATE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77955469774     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11547-010-0538-8     Document Type: Article

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