Virtual colon tagging for electronic cleansing in dual-energy fecal-tagging CT colonography

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3736-3739

  Cai, Wenli ^a   Kim, Se Hyung ^b   Lee, June Goo ^b   Yoshida, Hiroyuki ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CT COLONOGRAPHY; DECOMPOSITION SCHEME; DUAL-ENERGY; FECAL MATERIALS; INHOMOGENEITIES; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT; SOFT TISSUE;

IODINE; TISSUE;

MIXTURES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; ELECTRONICS; FECES; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SWINE;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; COLON; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; FECES; HUMANS; SUS SCROFA; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84870812953     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346779     Document Type: Conference Paper

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