CT Enterography: Concepts and Advances in Crohn's Disease Imaging

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-16

  Al Hawary, Mahmoud M ^a   Kaza, Ravi K ^a   Platt, Joel F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Crohn's disease; CT radiation dose; CTE; Small bowel

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ABSCESS; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ENTEROGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTESTINAL FIBROSIS; INTESTINE FISTULA; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE STENOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ENTEROGRAPHY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NOISE REDUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CROHN DISEASE; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84870040159     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: 15578275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2012.09.001     Document Type: Review

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