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Cardiac CT has undergone dramatic advances in technology with applications that include the assessment of coronary artery disease (CAD), evaluation of congenital abnormalities and structural function, and characterization of anatomy prior to valve and electrophysiology procedures. CT permits the rapid acquisition of high quality data in the majority of patients using prospective (radiation-sparing) or retrospective ECG gating, with outstanding resolution of the coronary arteries as well as other cardiac structures. Using the high-quality images of the coronary arteries, fractional flow reserve-computed tomography (FFR-CT) may provide an assessment of the hemodynamic significance of specific coronary lesions.
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Fox, A., Sabharwal, N. (2022). Cardiac Computed Tomography (CT) and Fractional Flow Reserve-Computed Tomography (FFR-CT). In: Hendel, R.C., Kimmelstiel, C. (eds) Cardiology Procedures. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95259-4_12
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