Virtual Colonoscopy

Why We Do CTC: Screening for Colorectal Cancer.- The Performance of CTC.- Starting CT Colonography in Your Department.- The Eligible Patient: Indications and Contraindications.- Patient Preparation for CT Colonography.- The Prerequisite: Faecal Tagging.- How to Get the Colon Distended?.- Right Parameters.- How to Interpret CTC Data: Evaluation of the Different Lesion Morphologies.- How to Avoid Pitfalls in Imaging: Causes and Solutions to Overcome False-Negatives and False-Positives.- 3D Imaging: Invaluable for the Correct Diagnosis?.- The Challenge: Detection of Early-Stage Superficial Colorectal Lesions.- Extracolonic Findings.- The Future: Computer-Aided Detection.- Quality and Consistency in Reporting CT Colonography.- Virtual Colonoscopy: Beyond Polyp Detection.- Pictorial Overview of Normal Anatomy, Mimics of Disease, and Neoplasia Using CT Colonography.

From the reviews of the second edition:

"As barium enema rapidly gives way to the era of virtual colonoscopy (VC), increasing numbers of radiologists and gastroenterologists need a guide to navigate this transition. The second edition of 'Virtual Colonoscopy: A Practical Guide' has arrived to fulfil this need. ... I would highly recommend this practical and informative book to anyone interested in virtual colonoscopy. I would particularly recommend it for radiologists making the transition from barium to VC, radiographers and perhaps most of all, sceptical colonoscopists." (Owen Epstein, RAD Magazine, December, 2010)

"'The book offers a very comprehensive overview of all aspects and issues of [computed tomographic] CT colonography with a focus on how to perform practically this examination.' ... I found the book to be well organized and written clearly and succinctly. ... book is intended to be 'a guide for both the beginner and the experienced CT colonographer. It fulfills its purpose and is an excellent resource for radiologists and radiology residents who are involved in performing and interpreting virtual colonoscopy." (Philip Goodman, Radiology, Vol. 258 (3), March, 2011)

"This second edition of a well known book is intended to provide the reader with all the most updated information in the rapidly evolving field of virtual colonoscopy. ... an important and impressive book, enriched by an enormous amount of perfectly reproduced images, a 'must have' book for radiologists, endoscopists and surgeons who understand ... that virtual colonoscopy is a very important diagnostic and screening tool when in the proper hands, or a mouse-trap and source of devastating errors in the hands of others." (Giampiero Beluffi, La Radiologia Medica, Vol. 116, 2011)