Advances in Small Bowel Imaging

Currently MR- as well as CT-imaging of the small bowel is considered as the new standard of reference for diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) replacing the conventional small bowel fluoroscopy. In this article we will discuss the application of MRI, CT and high resolution ultrasound for small bowel assessment in patients with IBD. Additionally we will focus on the changing paradigms in vascular diagnosis of the small bowel. Based on the most recent literature we recommend the primary bleeding and ischemia diagnosis based on high resolution multislice CT having the added value of excluding important differential diagnosis in these patients.