Virtual colonography: techniques and current clinical applications
Morrin, M.; Raptopoulos, V.; Weisinger, K.; Reynolds, K.; Kruskal, J.B.
Surgical Technology International 8: 121-127
1999
ISSN/ISBN: 1090-3941 PMID: 12451519 Document Number: 501927
The advent of volumetric helical computed tomography (CT), coupled with the almost universal use of oral and intravenous contrast agents, has resulted in CT becoming the diagnostic and therapeutic cornerstone for alimentary tract disease. Recent technical advances, further enhanced by innovative software developments, now permit multiplanar and endoluminal projections of the entire abdomen, and have resulted in the development of novel diagnostic applications in the abdomen.