Radiology Book

Approach

Hounsfield

Virtual

  • Virtual Endoscopy

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Virtual Endoscopy

Aka: Virtual Endoscopy
  1. Procedure
    1. Helical CT scanning with computer 3D reconstruction
      1. Surface rendering (fast but lower quality image)
      2. Volume rendering (slow but high quality image)
  2. Modalities currently being researched
    1. Virtual Colonoscopy
    2. Virtual Bronchoscopy
    3. Virtual Cystoscopy
    4. Virtual Nasolaryngoscopy
    5. Three dimensional CT Angiography
  3. References
    1. Wood (2002) Am Fam Physician 66(1):107-12

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