Technology Insight: new techniques for imaging the gut in patients with IBD
David H Bruining and Edward V Loftus Jr*
Correspondence *Miles and Shirley Fiterman Center for Digestive Diseases, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
Email loftus.edward@mayo.edu
The idiopathic inflammatory bowel diseases remain a vexing diagnostic challenge for clinicians. There have, however, been advances in the imaging modalities available for the diagnosis of IBD and the assessment of disease activity. In this Review, the authors discuss the new imaging techniques available—abdominal ultrasound, MRI, CT, capsule endoscopy and double-balloon endoscopy—and how they compare with each other and with more traditional diagnostic modalities.
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