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CTC Workflow:Reviewing & Reporting Exams
Abraham H. Dachman
The University of Chicago
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Aims• Explain the workflow involved in
interpreting and reporting CTC
• Environment for Interpretation
• Quality assurance
• Common strategies of interpretation
• Generating a CTC report
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Mike Macari’s Office
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Screen Shots . . .
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Workflow of CTC Interpretation• Confirm segmentation and map out colon
• 3D transparency view or coronals
• Quality assurance
• Distention, stool, fluid, tagging
• Search for polyps using both 3D and 2D
• Characterize and measure polyp candidates
• Secondary CAD-assisted evaluation
• Report (follow C-RADS guidelines)
• Search for extracolonic findings
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SUPINE PRONE
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Supine-Prone Registration
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Q.A. CHECKLIST
• Location of segments• tortuosity• mobility when comparing supine to prone
• Identify ileocecal valve• Quality of distention
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Q.A. CHECKLIST• Retained stool
• size• tagging
• Retained fluid• quantity• location• tagging• change supine – prone
• Artifacts (e.g., metal, breathing)
QA by technologist includes review of axial images for distention
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Always Identify IC ValveNot always intuitive . . .
• Identify by:
• Location
• Fat
• Shape
•Papillary (dome-shaped)
•Labial
•Mixed
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Poor Preparation
Excessive untagged feces
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Quality Assurance: The Bottom Line
• Are any segments suboptimal on both views?
• Could a 10 mm polyp be obscured?
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Methods of Interpretation
• 3D with 2D problem solving
• 2D with 3D problem solving
• Soft tissue windows for flat lesions
• Bone windows for dense oral contrast tagged fluid and stool
• Virtual Pathology (open views)
• Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD)
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Methods of Interpretation
• 3D with 2D problem solving
• 2D with 3D problem solving
• Soft tissue windows for flat lesions
• Bone windows for dense oral contrast tagged fluid and stool
• Virtual Pathology (open views)
• Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD)
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6 mm Polyp on a Fold
Coated with tagging agent
Basic Feature of Polyps
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prone supine
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Non-tagged Stool
Mobile, With Internal Gas
PRONESUPINE
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Well – Tagged Stool
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Lipoma on the ICV
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Courtesy of J.L. Fidler, MD
Dedicated Read for Flat Lesions
Wide Soft Tissue Window in 2D
Endoscopic view
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Polyps vs. Stool
• Solid, soft tissue
• Compare to muscle
• Use wide soft tissue window setting - interactively
• Does not move
• Compare supine to prone Decubs as needed
• Use many clues to confidently compare
• Nearby folds, tics
• Curvature of colon
• Lesion morphology, size
• Mottled pattern
• Use wide soft tissue window interactively
• Entire target is mottled
• Not a polyp covered by stool: no “footprint” along wall that is solid
• Moves
• To dependant surface
• Axial and sagittal views best
• If solid; beware of colonic mobility
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Approach to Polyp Candidate Analysis
• Polyp vs. fold > use > 3D or MPRs
• Polyp vs. stool > use > texture (W/L or color map)
• If solid . . .
• Compare supine / prone for mobility
• If mobile, check for long stalk, colonic rotation / flip
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Primary 3D Read Strategies• Forward and backward• Supine and prone• Special software features (e.g., color map for
polyp characterization, show blind areas)• Problem solve in 2D as needed as you read• Bookmark & defer difficult problem solving (e.g.,
difficult supine/prone comparison)
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Primary 2D ReadLearn to “Track the Colon”
• Highly magnified axial• Go slowly ! Look at all surfaces• Evaluate very short segments as you move along
an imaginary centerline• Use a lung window (1500/-600) setting or “colon”
(2000/0)• Non-magnified or magnified MPR• Simultaneous or deferred endoluminal comparison
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60° 90° 120°Antegrade
60° 90° 120°??
Retrograde
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Polyp Transverse ColonDifficult 2D
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Flat Lesions: Use Wide Soft Tissue Window
Supine Prone
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Computer Aided Detection:Integrated Visualization Display
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3D Over-measuring Pitfall“falling off the cliff”
• Use largest dimension on either 2D or 3D to triage management
• Per “C-RADS” 6 mm threshold for reporting polyps
9 mm
18.5 mm
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Filet View with Comparisons
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Band ViewBand View
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Fit to Width
Fit to Height
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Cube View
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Structured CTC Reporting • History
• Prep
• Informed of exam limitations
• Technique
• Colon findings
• Extracolonic findings
• C-RADS scores / Recommendations
• Footnote qualifier / reference C-RADS
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C-RADS Classification
• C0 Inadequate study (can not evaluate 10 mm lesions)
• C1 Normal, routine follow up (Q 5 yrs CTC)
• C2 Indeterminate; 1-3 yr f/u• Polyp 6-9 mm, < 3 in number
• Findings indeterminate; cannot exclude polyps ≥ 6 mm
• C3 10 mm or >3 6-9mm polyps Colonoscopy
• C4 Mass, likely malignant; surgical consult
*Zalis et al for the Working Group on VC. Radiology 2005;236:3-9.
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Summary• Both 2D and 3D skills are needed – use it in every case
• Use a systematic approach that involves QA of images, recognition of anatomic landmarks and supine-prone comparison
• Recognize pitfalls and use CAD secondary read
• Report using C-RADS guidelines and recommendations
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THANK YOU !
Acknowledgments• Contributors to “The Atlas of Virtual Colonoscopy” Eds1 & 2
• Mike Macari, Philippe Lefere.