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Pediatric Cardiac CT

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Pediatric Chest Imaging

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Recent improvements in technology have significantly advanced the role of multidetector CT (MDCT) in noninvasive imaging of the cardiovascular system. From the early use of helical CT for imaging anomalies of the thoracic vasculature (Hopkins et al. 1996; Westra et al. 1999), MDCT has become an important complementary modality to echocardiography and MRI for noninvasive imaging of cardiac morphology and function (Juergens et al. 2004), coronary arteries (Schoepf et al. 2004; Schoenhagen et al. 2004) and following operative and catheter intervention of many forms of congenital heart disease (Kawano et al. 2000). From the development of the first scanner in 1992 with 2 detectors that could acquire spatial information simultaneously, MDCT rapidly evolved to systems with 16 detectors, and presently 64 detector scanners are widely in use. A multidetector CT with ‘x’ number of detectors can obtain ‘x’ times more data per revolution than single detector systems, and current MDCT scanners have gantries that can spin faster than two revolutions per second, further increasing the speed of data acquisition.

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Sena, L., Krishnamurthy, R., Chung, T. (2008). Pediatric Cardiac CT. In: Lucaya, J., Strife, J.L. (eds) Pediatric Chest Imaging. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32676-2_16

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