Small-bowel imaging with CT and MRI: Overview of techniques and indications

Applied Radiology

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 18-24

  Fletcher, Joel G ^a   Fidler, Jeff L ^a   Huprich, James E ^a   Llano, Ernesto ^a   Spencer, Garrett ^a   Bruining, David H ^b  

^a Department of Radiology ^*

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CARCINOID; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ENTEROGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CROHN DISEASE; DIARRHEA; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL POLYPOSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; HUMAN; ILEITIS; INTESTINE BIOPSY; INTESTINE RADIOGRAPHY; LOW DOSE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ENTEROCLYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ENTEROCLYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ENTEROGRAPHY; MESENTERIC ISCHEMIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS DISEASE; PELVIS RADIOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE REDUCTION; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; TRIPLE PHASE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ENTEROGRAPHY;

EID: 84873601561     PISSN: 01609963     EISSN: 18792898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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