The American College of Radiology® (ACR®) is celebrating the decision by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to finalize its proposal to allow coverage of CT colonography (CTC) for ...

An editorialist suggests that the inconsistent results observed across studies of CT colonography are due to differences in patient selection, quality of CT hardware and software, protocol details ...

CT colonography takes about 15 minutes. At the beginning of the procedure, the colon is filled with carbon dioxide or air with a tube introduced into the rectum. The patient is asked to roll over into ...

CT colonography (CTC), also referred to as virtual colonoscopy, has high sensitivity and represents a promising screening tool that has the potential to improve overall screening rates, if ...

Several studies, including a randomized controlled trial from the Netherlands (JW Gastroenterol Jan 6 2012), have now reported the performance of laxative-free computed tomographic colonography (CTC).