Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiography

Coronary computed tomographic angiography: its role in emergency department triage.

Coronary computed tomographic angiography and incidental pulmonary nodules.

I ncidental findings are an important topic in diagnostic imaging. Because of the comprehensive nature of computed tomography (CT) scanning, incidental findings are seemingly found on almost every CT scan performed for a wide variety of reasons in a radiology department. Many of these incidental findings such as a liver cyst are benign and immediately dismissed. Other findings require more exte...

Expert Consensus Document on Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiography

Daniel B. Mark, MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA, Chair*; Daniel S. Berman, MD, FACC†‡; Matthew J. Budoff, MD, FACC, FAHA§; J. Jeffrey Carr, MD, FACC, FAHA ; Thomas C. Gerber, MD, FACC, FAHA¶#; Harvey S. Hecht, MD, FACC§; Mark A. Hlatky, MD, FACC, FAHA; John McB. Hodgson, MD, FSCAI, FACC**; Michael S. Lauer, MD, FACC, FAHA*; Julie M. Miller, MD, FACC*; Richard L. Morin, PhD ; Debabrata Mukherjee, MD, FACC; ...

The Contest Between Magnetic Resonance and Computed Tomographic Coronary Angiography

Noninvasive coronary imaging is often considered the Holy Grail among cardiologists and radiologists interested in the diagnosis and treatment of coronary atherosclerosis.1–3 That noninvasive coronary imaging would aid in establishing new prevention and treatment strategies in a wide range of clinical scenarios, ranging from early subclinical diagnosis of atherosclerosis in asymptomatic individ...

Anatomy of an emerging diagnostic test: computed tomographic coronary angiography.

The study by Mollet et al on CT coronary angiography in this issue of Circulation is important for several reasons.1 The 64-multislice technology for acquiring tomographic x-rays of the coronary vessels during the arterial phase of a bolus of iodinated contrast introduces several technical advances: improved spatial resolution (thinner slices), improved temporal resolution (less time needed to ...