Magnetic resonance colonography with a limited bowel preparation and automated carbon dioxide insufflation in comparison to conventional colonoscopy: patient burden and preferences.

•MR colonography with a limited bowel preparation and automated carbon dioxide insufflation demonstrated less burden compared to colonoscopy.•When discarding the bowel preparation, the examinations were rated equally burdensome.•The majority of patients preferred MR colonography over colonoscopy for their future examination of the bowel.