MDCT artifact related to the intra-scan gravitational flow of opacified luminal fluid (the "dense waterfall" sign)

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 292-296

  Boyce, Cody J ^a   Vetter, John R ^a   Pickhardt, Perry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

CT artifact; CT colonography; MDCT; Oral contrast; Phantom

Indexed keywords

DIATRIZOATE;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DENSE WATERFALL SIGN; FLUID FLOW; GRAVITY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; ARTIFACTS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; GRAVITATION; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84863724056     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: 14320509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-011-9731-z     Document Type: Article

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