Clinical Imaging
Volume 35, Issue 3 , Pages 198-202, May 2011

CT virtual colonoscopy in displaying excavated colon lesions☆

  • Xing-wang Wu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, PR China
    • ,
  • Bin Liu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, PR China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding authors. Tel.: +86 13856919001 (J.-m. Xu) and Tel.: +86 13955167161 (B. Liu).
    • ,
  • Wan-qin Wang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, PR China
    • ,
  • Jian-ming Xu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Digestive System Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230022, PR China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding authors. Tel.: +86 13856919001 (J.-m. Xu) and Tel.: +86 13955167161 (B. Liu).

Received 12 April 2010; accepted 1 June 2010. published online 26 July 2010.

Abstract 

The aim of this study was to evaluate the relative values of 2D plane view and 3D intracavity view of CT virtual colonoscopy in displaying colon excavated lesions. Cleaned porcine colon with ulcerative lesion was scanned with multidetector CT. The data were reconstructed and reviewed using 2D plane view and 3D volume-rendered images on a GE AW4.2 workstation. The 3D volume-rendered images showed superiority in displaying excavated lesions.

Keywords: Colon, Colonoscopy, Tomography, X-ray computed, Animals, laboratory

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☆ Authorship statement: Wu Xing-wang: Designed the research, cared for research subjects, collected data, analyzed data, wrote, and reviewed the manuscript. Liu Bin: Designed the research, cared for research subjects, and completed this study congenerous with Wu Xing-wang. Wang Wan-qin: Laboratory analysis, reviewed the manuscript. Xu Jian-ming: Designed the research, cared for research subjects, reviewed the manuscript.

PII: S0899-7071(10)00136-1

doi:10.1016/j.clinimag.2010.06.006

Clinical Imaging
Volume 35, Issue 3 , Pages 198-202, May 2011

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