NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The use of magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, may offer a more tolerable alternative to conventional colonoscopy in screening for colon cancer, new research suggests. With ...

Advances in techniques for imaging the gut continue to drive the rapid development of modalities for diagnosing and assessing the activity of IBD. Abdominal ultrasound and magnetic resonance ...

According to Schreyer et al., MRI enteroclysis (MRE) in combination with magnetic resonance imaging colonography (MRC) might be a promising new diagnostic approach for whole bowel assessment in ...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a technique using magnets, radio waves, and a computer that produces images of soft tissues in the body, like muscles and organs. Unlike some other imaging tests, ...

Background: Computerized tomographic (CT) colonography is a potential alternative to colonoscopy for colorectal cancer screening. Its main advantage, a better safety profile, may be offset by its ...

» How is CT colonography performed? CT colonography takes about 15 minutes. At the beginning of the procedure, the colon is filled with carbon dioxide or air with a tube introduced into the rectum.

NEW YORK, August 15 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - The use of magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, may offer a more tolerable alternative to conventional colonoscopy in ...