A Comparison of Virtual and Conventional Colonoscopy for the Detection of Colorectal Polyps
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- 11 November 1999
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 341 (20) , 1496-1503
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199911113412003
Abstract
Virtual colonoscopy is a new method of imaging the colon in which thin-section, helical computed tomography (CT) is used to generate high-resolution, two-dimensional axial images. Three-dimensional images of the colon simulating those obtained with conventional colonoscopy are then reconstructed off-line. We compared the performance of virtual and conventional colonoscopy for the detection of colorectal polyps.Keywords
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