Clinical indications for coronary artery calcium scoring in asymptomatic patients: expert consensus statement from the Society of Cardiovascular Computed …

H Hecht, MJ Blaha, DS Berman, K Nasir… - Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
This expert consensus statement summarizes the available data regarding the prognostic
value of CAC in the asymptomatic population and its ability to refine individual risk …

2010 ACCF/AHA guideline for assessment of cardiovascular risk in asymptomatic adults: a report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart …

P Greenland, JS Alpert, GA Beller, EJ Benjamin… - Journal of the American …, 2010 - jacc.org
The recommendations listed in this document are, whenever possible, evidence based. An
extensive evidence review was conducted for the period beginning March 2008 through …

Generative adversarial networks for noise reduction in low-dose CT

JM Wolterink, T Leiner, MA Viergever… - IEEE transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Noise is inherent to low-dose CT acquisition. We propose to train a convolutional neural
network (CNN) jointly with an adversarial CNN to estimate routine-dose CT images from low …

Accuracy of ultrahigh-resolution photon-counting CT for detecting coronary artery disease in a high-risk population

MT Hagar, M Soschynski, R Saffar, A Rau, J Taron… - Radiology, 2023 - pubs.rsna.org
Background Recently introduced photon-counting CT may improve noninvasive assessment
of patients with high risk for coronary artery disease (CAD). Purpose To determine the …

Deep learning–based image restoration algorithm for coronary CT angiography

F Tatsugami, T Higaki, Y Nakamura, Z Yu, J Zhou… - European …, 2019 - Springer
Objectives The purpose of this study was to compare the image quality of coronary
computed tomography angiography (CTA) subjected to deep learning–based image …

Radiation dose associated with common computed tomography examinations and the associated lifetime attributable risk of cancer

R Smith-Bindman, J Lipson, R Marcus… - Archives of internal …, 2009 - jamanetwork.com
Background Use of computed tomography (CT) for diagnostic evaluation has increased
dramatically over the past 2 decades. Even though CT is associated with substantially …

Projected cancer risks from computed tomographic scans performed in the United States in 2007

AB De González, M Mahesh, KP Kim… - Archives of internal …, 2009 - jamanetwork.com
Background The use of computed tomographic (CT) scans in the United States (US) has
increased more than 3-fold since 1993 to approximately 70 million scans annually. Despite …

Reduction in radiation exposure in cardiovascular computed tomography imaging: results from the PROspective multicenter registry on radiaTion dose Estimates of …

TJ Stocker, S Deseive, J Leipsic… - European heart …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Aims Advances of cardiac computed tomography angiography (CTA) have been developed
for dose reduction, but their efficacy in clinical practice is largely unknown. This study was …

Exposure to low-dose ionizing radiation from medical imaging procedures

R Fazel, HM Krumholz, Y Wang, JS Ross… - … England Journal of …, 2009 - Mass Medical Soc
Background The growing use of imaging procedures in the United States has raised
concerns about exposure to low-dose ionizing radiation in the general population. Methods …

Computed tomographic angiography characteristics of atherosclerotic plaques subsequently resulting in acute coronary syndrome

S Motoyama, M Sarai, H Harigaya, H Anno… - Journal of the American …, 2009 - jacc.org
Objectives: In a computed tomographic (CT) angiography study, we identified the
characteristics of atherosclerotic lesions that were associated with subsequent development …