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Virtual Endoscopy

  • 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)
  • Modalities currently being researched
  1. Virtual Colonoscopy
  2. Virtual Bronchoscopy
  3. Virtual Cystoscopy
  4. Virtual Nasolaryngoscopy
  5. Three dimensional CT Angiography
  • References
  1. Wood (2002) Am Fam Physician 66(1):107-12 [PubMed]