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Welcome to this modality course on HRCT.

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I'm Jonathan Chung, professor of Radiology

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and Division Chief of Cardiothoracic Imaging at University

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of California San Diego.

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I'm also an associate clinical associate at the University

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of Chicago, where I also do research.

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It's my pleasure to be presenting here.

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We're gonna be discussing some didactics on HRCT,

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but also more importantly,

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we're gonna go through a ton of cases.

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And I think through those cases you're gonna learn quite a

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bit in addition to the didactics.

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So why complete this course?

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So number one, obviously you're probably here

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because you wanna learn more about HRCT

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or maybe in your own clinical practice,

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you feel like that's a weakness.

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And so if that's true, welcome,

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this course is definitely for you.

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But for those of you guys who are kind of on the fence,

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should you complete this course, the next slide will explain

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to you why it's so important.

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Really paramount for us as radiologists

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to be really well versed on ILD assessment on HRCT.

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It has something to do with pathology,

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but again, uh, I'll just leave that cliffhanger there just

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to kinda keep you on course here.

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Overall goal of this course, I mean, I say goals,

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but really it's one goal is

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to get better at ILD assessment on HRCT.

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It can be challenging. It's, it's one of those things where

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when I talk to my friends in general practice, they say

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it's common enough where it's irksome,

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but it's not common enough where you get good at it.

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It's one of those kind of things. So you have to read 'em,

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but your mastery,

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or at least your confidence,

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maybe you're actually pretty good at it,

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but your confidence in reading them is fairly low.

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So we want to get rid of that. We want

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to increase the confidence,

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we wanna make sure the mastery is there.

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In terms of all of the assessment, general overview of

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how we're gonna approach and really get this categorized in

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our minds is that we're gonna use a pattern based approach.

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So we're gonna start with pulmonary fibrosis.

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We're gonna have a section on nodular lung disease section

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on cystic lung disease,

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and then we're gonna have a section on interstitial lung

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abnormality and progressive pulmonary fibrosis.

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After all those sections, there will be some cases, some

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of these sections will have many, many cases

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and some will just have a few.

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So here we go.