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.

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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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