Assessment of the myocardium with cardiac computed tomography

B Clayton, C Roobottom… - European Heart Journal …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The imaging of myocardial disease is of increasing importance for cardiologists from all
subspecialties, for diagnosis, risk stratification, or to facilitate therapy. While the gold …

Utility of multimodality imaging in the morphologic characterization of anomalous aortic origin of a coronary artery

S Lee, SC Uppu, ID Lytrivi, J Sanz… - World Journal for …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Anomalous aortic origin of a coronary artery from the wrong Sinus of Valsalva
(AAOCA) is a rare congenital anomaly and is associated with sudden cardiac death …

Application of prospective ECG-gated multiphase scanning for coronary CT in children with different heart rates

S Tang, G Zhang, Z Chen, X Liu, L He - Japanese Journal of Radiology, 2021 - Springer
Background To investigate the application of prospective ECG-gated multiphase scanning in
coronary CT imaging in children with different heart rates. Methods In the control group, 160 …

Tube potential can be lowered to 80 kVp in test bolus phase of CT coronary angiography (CTCA) and CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA) to save dose without …

JCL Rodrigues, D Joshi, SM Lyen, IS Negus… - European …, 2014 - Springer
Objectives The purpose of this study was to determine whether performing the test bolus
(TB) of computed tomography coronary angiography (CTCA) and computed tomography …

Preoperative CT of cardiac veins for planning left ventricular lead placement in cardiac resynchronization therapy

H Markstad, Z Bakos, E Ostenfeld, M Geijer… - Acta …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Successful cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) requires appropriate left
ventricular (LV) lead placement on a suitable segment of the free LV wall. Current guidelines …

[图书][B] Patient radiation dose issues resulting from the use of CT in the UK

A Elliott, P Darragh, W Evans, B Howard, M Kadhim… - 2014 - nora.nerc.ac.uk
In this report, COMARE presents a comprehensive review of the radiation dose issues
associated with CT scans in the UK. The implications of the increase in the numbers of CT …

An evaluation of the incremental value of computed tomographic biomarkers in cardiovascular risk prediction

CL Pang - 2020 - pearl.plymouth.ac.uk
Predicting cardiovascular events is an important subject in the developed world as it is a
major cause of morbidity and mortality. Identifying those at risk of developing cardiovascular …

Myocardial Mapping in Evaluation of Myocardial Diseases and Assessing Normative Values in Controls

VC Mondy - 2019 - repository-tnmgrmu.ac.in
INTRODUCTION: Myocardial fibrosis is a fundamental process leading to morbidity and
mortality in myocardial diseases. Endomyocardial biopsy and late gadolinium enhancement …

Clinical impact of low-radiation computed tomography coronary angiography diagnosis for coronary artery stenosis: Study Protocol

JJ Li, M Zeng - Medicine, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Background: The objective of this study aims to assess the clinic impact of low-radiation
computed tomography coronary angiography (LR-CTCA) diagnosis for coronary artery …

Approach to CT Dose Optimization: Role of Registries and Benchmarking

MK Kalra - Quality and Safety in Imaging, 2018 - Springer
Past two decades have seen remarkable improvements in both hardware and software
technologies related to computed tomography (CT)(Tabari et al. 2017). Starting from the …