CT colonography versus double-contrast barium enema for screening of colorectal cancer: Comparison of radiation burden

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 596-601

  Neri, Emanuele ^a   Faggioni, Lorenzo ^a   Cerri, Francesca ^a   Turini, Francesca ^a   Angeli, Simone ^a   Cini, Lorenzo ^a   Perrone, Franco ^a   Paolicchi, Fabio ^a   Bartolozzi, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer screening; Computed tomographic colonography; Double contrast barium enema; Multidetector computed tomography; Radiation dose

Indexed keywords

DIATRIZOATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BARIUM ENEMA; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; DOUBLE CONTRAST BARIUM ENEMA; FEMALE; FLUOROGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

BARIUM SULFATE; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIATRIZOATE MEGLUMINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ENEMA; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; INSUFFLATION; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 78651246150     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-009-9568-x     Document Type: Article

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