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CT of the heart

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State of the Art in Quantitative Coronary Arteriography

Part of the book series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine ((DICM,volume 53))

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Advances based upon the detector elements instead of X-ray film have greatly increased the power of X-ray imaging. Computed tomography (CT) creates cross-sectional rather than projected images. Recently, high speed CT devices have been developed for cardiovascular studies. The Cine-CT scanner employs a scanning electron beam deflected on an extended tungsten target ring. Fast scans of 50 millisecond exposures at multiple levels can provide information concerning blood flow in vessels and tissues, myocardial wall motion, valve integrity, coronary bypass graft patency and proximal coronary artery anatomy. Cine-CT dynamic scanning can also provide volume imaging with small quantities (0.05–1.5 ml/kg) of contrast medium administered via peripheral vein injections.

Cine-CT provides simultaneous measurements of cardic dimentions and function and is rapidly becoming a new tool for quantitating myocardial blood flow, cardiac chamber volumes and wall mechanics. The future outlook is very promising fo this three-dimensional cine-CT technique with high spatial resolution. High speed CT should provide unique diagnostic information and as technology continues to improve at a rapid speed, this new imaging modality could be a challenge for angiography.

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Lipton, M.J. (1986). CT of the heart. In: Reiber, J.H.C., Serruys, P.W. (eds) State of the Art in Quantitative Coronary Arteriography. Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, vol 53. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4279-0_6

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