Key Takeaways
- Familiarity with the indications and contra-indications to CTC.
- Familiarity with types of bowel preparation in order to minimize the volume of residual fluid in the colon. Familiarity with the regimes of “minimal preparation” and faecal tagging.
- Awareness of the methods of insufflation of the colon. Current recommendations are for the use of automatic pressure-limited insufflation devices. These require a certain degree of training in their use.
- Use of various scanning protocols (low-dose, standard-dose +/- IV contrast) dependant on the clinical indication and age of patient. It is common practice to perform prone scans at low-dose and tailor the supine acquisition according to the findings on the prone scan; this requires rapid assessment by the radiologist “on the go.
About Speaker
- Dr Helen Moore
- Dr Jane Reeve
Dr. Helen Moore obtained her FRANZCR in 2000, and completed
an Advanced Training Position in MRI at Monash Medical Centre
(2002). Her main interests are abdominal and pelvic imaging,
and she is a Body imaging subspecialist at Auckland City
Hospital, and at Auckland Radiology Group where she has been
performing CT Colonography since 2003. She has published
several papers on CTC and presented lectures on the topic at
international meetings and workshops. She served three terms
on the executive committee of ARGANZ and is on the RANZCR
CTC Accreditation committee. She served on the NZ National
Bowel cancer Working group from 2015-2019, and the
Northern Regional Bowel Cancer Tumor Stream 2010-2021.
Dr Jane Reeve received her fellowship in 2007. She has worked at Middlemore Hospital, for Queensland X-ray in Brisbane and since 2012, has worked as a Body imaging sub-specialist at Auckland District Health board and for Mercy Radiology, where she specialized in Oncological Imaging and PET CT. She has been reporting CT Colonography since 2012 and heads the CT Colonography service at Auckland District Health board. She has co-authored papers on CT Colonography.
