Effect of vessel attenuation, VMI level, and reconstruction kernel on pericoronary adipose tissue attenuation for EID CT and PCD CT: an ex vivo porcine heart study

J Pitteloud, LJ Moser, K Klambauer… - American Journal of …, 2024 - ajronline.org
BACKGROUND. Pericoronary adipose tissue (PCAT) attenuation and the fat attenuation
index (FAI) may serve as markers of inflammation and the risk of adverse cardiac events …

Epicardial adipose tissue density is a better predictor of cardiometabolic risk in HFpEF patients: a prospective cohort study

J Liu, Q Yu, Z Li, Y Zhou, Z Liu, L You, L Tao… - Cardiovascular …, 2023 - Springer
Background Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) accumulation is associated with multiple
cardiometabolic risk factors and prognosis of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction …

The relationship between enhancing left atrial adipose tissue at CT and recurrent atrial fibrillation

AT Huber, S Fankhauser, L Chollet, S Wittmer, A Lam… - Radiology, 2022 - pubs.rsna.org
Background The association of epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) and its metabolic activity
with atrial fibrillation (AF) is an area of active investigation. Left atrial (LA) enhancing EAT (e …

Deep learning segmentation and quantification method for assessing epicardial adipose tissue in CT calcium score scans

A Hoori, T Hu, J Lee, S Al-Kindi, S Rajagopalan… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Epicardial adipose tissue volume (EAT) has been linked to coronary artery disease and the
risk of major adverse cardiac events. As manual quantification of EAT is time-consuming …

[HTML][HTML] A cloud-based medical device for predicting cardiac risk in suspected coronary artery disease: a rapid review and conceptual economic model

M Westwood, N Armstrong, E Krijkamp… - Health Technology …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
BACKGROUND The CaRi-Heart® device estimates risk of 8-year cardiac death, using a
prognostic model, which includes perivascular fat attenuation index, atherosclerotic plaque …

Epicardial fat density obtained with computed tomography imaging-more important than volume?

Ł Nogajski, M Mazuruk, M Kacperska… - Cardiovascular …, 2024 - Springer
Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) is a unique fat depot located between the myocardium and
the visceral layer of pericardium. It can be further subdivided into pericoronary (PCAT) …

The pericoronary adipose tissue attenuation in CT strongly depends on kernels and iterative reconstructions

C Lisi, K Klambauer, LJ Moser, V Mergen, R Manka… - European …, 2024 - Springer
Objectives To investigate the influence of kernels and iterative reconstructions on
pericoronary adipose tissue (PCAT) attenuation in coronary CT angiography (CCTA) …

Influence of local aortic calcification on periaortic adipose tissue radiomics texture features—a primary analysis on PCCT

H Tharmaseelan, MF Froelich, D Nörenberg… - The international journal …, 2022 - Springer
Perivascular adipose tissue is known to be metabolically active. Volume and density of
periaortic adipose tissue are associated with aortic calcification as well as aortic diameter …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting coronary atherosclerosis heart disease with pericoronary adipose tissue attenuation parameters based on dual-layer spectral detector computed …

L Zou, X Xiao, Y Jia, F Yin, J Zhu, Q Gao… - … Imaging in Medicine …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Coronary atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory condition. Pericoronary
adipose tissue (PCAT) attenuation is closely related to coronary inflammation. This study …

[HTML][HTML] Intra-individual comparison of epicardial adipose tissue characteristics on coronary CT angiography between photon-counting detector and energy …

D Kravchenko, M Vecsey-Nagy, G Tremamunno… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Purpose To explore the potential differences in epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) volume and
attenuation measurements between photon-counting detector (PCD) and energy-integrating …