Atlas of Virtual Colonoscopy Comprehensive Atlas and Fundamentals /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dachman, Abraham H. (Editor), Laghi, Andrea (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Radiology.; Nuclear medicine.; Gastroenterology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Imaging / Radiology.; Nuclear Medicine.

Atlas of Virtual Colonoscopy thoroughly revises and updates Abraham Dachman’s bestselling first edition. Joined in this edition by co-editor Andrea Laghi, Dr. Dachman has expanded the focus of the text to cover fundamental topics of this rapidly evolving technology, including the history of virtual...

Table of Contents:

• Virtual Colonoscopy: From concept to implementation
• Global implementation of CTC
• Epidemiology and Screening of Colorectal Cancer
• Implementation and clinical trials in the USA
• Clinical Trials: Europe
• Patient Preparation and Tagging
• Performing and Reporting
• Viewing Methods
• The Controversy Over Flat Lesions
• MR Colonography
• Extracolonic Findings
• Computer-Aided Detection
• Normal Anatomy
• Sessile Polyps
• Pedunculated Polyps
• Diminutive Polyps
• Flat Lesions
• Stool, Diverticulosis
• Masses
• Pitfalls and Miscellaneous.