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First published online February 28, 2007
British Journal of Radiology (2007) 80, 235-241
© 2007 British Institute of Radiology
doi: 10.1259/bjr/83959666
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Prospective study on bright lumen magnetic resonance colonography in comparison with conventional colonoscopy

B Saar, MD 1 A Meining, MD 2 A Beer, MD 3 M Settles, SC, PhD 3 H Helmberger, MD 4 E Frimberger, MD 2 E J Rummeny, MD 3 and T Rösch, MD 5

1 Department of Diagnostic, Interventional and Pediatric Radiology, University Hospital of Berne, Inselspital, Switzerland, 2 Department of Internal Medicine II, Technische Universitaet of Munich, Germany, 3 Department of Radiology, Technische Universitaet of Munich, Germany, 4 Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Hospital Dritter Orden, Munich, Germany, 5 Department of Medicine, Division of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Charité Medical Center, Virchow Hospital, Medical School of Berlin, Berlin, Germany


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  		Figure 1. (a) Source image of MRC with a pedunculated polyp of the sigmoid colon (white arrow). (b) Displays the same polyp of 8 mm in size in the virtual endoluminal view (black arrow), polyp and size confirmed at CC.

 

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  		Figure 2. High grade stenosis due to colon cancer of the left flexure in the MIP. The entire colon was delineated including some diverticula of the descending and sigmoid colon.

 

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  		Figure 3. Bar chart illustrating polyp detection by MRC according to colonoscopic size.

 

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  		Figure 4. Comparison of the conventional colonoscopic view(a) and the virtual view of a MRC data set (b) showing a sessile adenoma of 12 mm in size, polyp and size confirmed at CC.

 




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