Coronary CT Angiography

This book will help medical practitioners integrate cardiac CT into their daily practice, while also giving an overview of the current technical status and applications. The specific features of scanners from all four main vendors are also presented.

Coronary CT angiography has attained increasing scientific attention at academic institutions and has become a highly accurate diagnostic modality. Extending this knowledge into a practice setting is the purpose of "Coronary CT Angiography". This book will assist you in integrating cardiac CT into your daily practice, while also giving an overview of the current technical status and applications. The specific features of scanners from all four main vendors are also presented providing an objective overview of noninvasive coronary angiography using CT.

Readers will learn how to perform CT coronary angiography An Overview of the Current technical status and applications of CT is presented Four CT scanners from four vendors will be presented and discussed Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

Dr. Marc Dewey has published more than 30 papers on noninvasive cardiac imaging over the last three years. Among them is a landmark paper published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in 2006 showing that CT coronary angiography is more accurate than magnetic resonance imaging. Dr. Dewey's team is well known for the cardiac imaging workshops held at the Charité and he is a renowned speaker on cardiac imaging. Experts for the scanners of all four vendors such as Dr. Martin Hoffmann will contribute to the corresponding chapters.

Inhalt
Technical and Personnel Requirements.- Anatomy.- CT in the Context of Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Management.- Clinical Indications.- Patient Preparation.- Examination and Reconstruction.- Toshiba Aquilion 64.- Siemens Somatom Sensation and Definition.- Philips Brilliance 64.- General Electric Light Speed VCT.- Reading and Reporting.- Typical Clinical Examples.- Results of Clinical Studies.- Outlook.