Informatics in radiology: Dual-energy electronic cleansing for fecal-tagging CT colonography

Radiographics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 891-912

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

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; FECES; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; STAINING;

ARTIFACTS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; CONTRAST MEDIA; FECES; HUMANS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHY, DUAL-ENERGY SCANNED PROJECTION; STAINING AND LABELING; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 84877849743     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: 15271323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.333125039     Document Type: Article

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