Will procedural complexity cultivate interdisciplinary camaraderie?

a t i r s c i a g p s b i s n t r F omputed tomography (CT) has a number of potential advantages over other imaging techniques. They include the relatively fast and straightforward image cquisition with little need for preparation, and he ability to schedule the test at a short noice—an advantage that cannot be underestimated n a clinical setting. Further, CT has a high spaial resolution of 0.4 to 0.5 mm in the imaging lane, and the utilization of multidetector row arays permits acquisition of very thin slices so that he obtained dataset is almost isotropic. An isotroic resolution denotes the same spatial resolution n all dimensions and can be reformatted in any esired orientation without losing image quality n the rendered image. The disadvantages of CT maging include the radiation exposure and adinistration of iodinated contrast. The need for lectrocardiography-triggered or electrocardiograhy-gated image acquisition for many cardiac aplications makes image acquisition more elaboate, and both physicians and technologists equire adequate training to manage such situaions. The main clinical application of cardiac CT is maging of the coronary arteries, wherein other oninvasive imaging modalities currently do not rovide comparable image quality. The excellence f coronary imaging is so overpowering that it is ften forgotten that CT may also permit highesolution imaging of cardiac morphology and ardiac function. Some of the examples of the later include applications to analyze ventricular ge-