Electronic cleansing in fecal-tagging dual-energy CT colonography based on material decomposition and virtual colon tagging

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 754-765

  Cai, Wenli ^a   Lee, June Goo ^b   Zhang, Da ^a   Kim, Se Hyung ^c   Zalis, Michael ^a   Yoshida, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Dual energy CT; Electronic cleansing; Partial volume effect; Virtual colonoscopy

Indexed keywords

MIXTURES; TISSUE;

DUAL-ENERGY CT; DUAL-ENERGY CT COLONOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC CLEANSING; FECAL-TAGGING CT COLONOGRAPHY; MATERIAL DECOMPOSITION; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT; SMOOTHING ALGORITHMS; VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

IOHEXOL;

ADULT; AIR; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONIC CLEANING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING PHANTOM; PERFORMANCE; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOFT TISSUE; VIRTUAL COLON TAGGING; COLON; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FECES; FEMALE; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; MALE; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAINING;

ADULT; ARTIFACTS; COLON; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, DUAL-ENERGY SCANNED PROJECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAINING AND LABELING; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 84921446076     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2014.2364837     Document Type: Article

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