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CT Evaluation of the Myocardial Blood Supply: Single-Source, Single-Energy CT

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CT Imaging of Myocardial Perfusion and Viability

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Cardiac CT has evolved into a useful clinical tool assessing the morphology of the coronary arteries noninvasively. However, the diagnostic accuracy can still be limited. Especially in stenoses with unclear hemodynamic significance, morphological assessment of the CT coronary angiography tends to overestimate disease, leading to false-positive results. Recent technical developments offer the opportunity to assess myocardial perfusion, combining morphological with functional information. In this chapter, single-source CT techniques providing perfusion information on the myocardium, i.e., both single-shot and dynamic multiphasic acquisition techniques, will be explained and discussed.

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  1. Department of Clinical Radiology, University Hospitals Munich - Grosshadern Campus, Munich, Germany

    Konstantin Nikolaou

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  1. Center for Advanced Imaging Research (CAIR), Medical University of South Carolina Dept. Radiology, Charleston, South Carolina, USA

    U. Joseph Schoepf

  2. Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Bayern, Germany

    Fabian Bamberg

  3. Department of Cardiology, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Universit, Liverpool, United Kingdom

    Balazs Ruzsics

  4. University Medical Center Groningen Center for Medical Imaging, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Rozemarijn Vliegenthart

  5. Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Cardiothoracic Imaging Division, Department of Medical Imaging, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Gorka Bastarrika

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Nikolaou, K. (2012). CT Evaluation of the Myocardial Blood Supply: Single-Source, Single-Energy CT. In: Schoepf, U., Bamberg, F., Ruzsics, B., Vliegenthart, R., Bastarrika, G. (eds) CT Imaging of Myocardial Perfusion and Viability. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/174_2012_759

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