Our manuscript addresses the reliability of cardiac CT as an alternative for cardiac MRI in patients with a systemic right ventricle. Currently, cardiac MRI is considered the gold standard for volumes and function measurements of the systemic right ventricle. However, 20% of patients with a systemic right ventricle is pacemaker dependent, and therefore unsuitable to undergo MRI. To our knowledg...

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and echocardiography are often the primary imaging techniques for many patients with congenital heart disease (CHD). However, with modern generations of CT systems and recent advances in temporal and spatial resolution, cardiac CT has been gaining an increasing reputation in the field of cardiac imaging and in the evaluation of patients with congenital heart d...

Cardiac masses represent a diagnostic challenge because decisions about treatment are based on imaging techniques. Echocardiography, magnetic resonance (MR) and computed tomography (CT) are fundamental for the detection, characterization, and staging of cardiac masses as well as for planning their treatment. Most primary cardiac tumors are benign; myxomas, papillary fibroelastomas, and lipomas ...

UNLABELLED In the diagnostic algorithm of cardiac tumors, the noninvasive determination of malignancy and metastatic spread is of major interest to stratify patients and to select and monitor therapies. In the diagnostic work-up, morphologic imaging modalities such as echocardiography or magnetic resonance tomography offer information on, for example, size, invasiveness, and vascularization. Ho...

This paper describes "how to" examine cardiac valves with computed tomography, the normal, diseased valves, and prosthetic valves. A review of current scientific literature is provided. Firstly, technical basics, "how to" perform and optimize a multislice CT scan and "how to" interpret valves on CT images are outlined. Then, diagnostic imaging of the entire spectrum of specific valvular disease...

A 54 year old female presented with lower extremity edema, fatigue, and shortness of breath with physical findings indicative of advanced aortic insufficiency. Echocardiography showed severe aortic regurgitation and a probable quadricuspid aortic valve. In anticipation of aortic valve replacement, cardiac computed tomography (Cardiac CT) was performed using 100 kV, 420 mA which resulted in 6 mS...

18F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography (18F-FDG PET/CT) has recently been added as a major criterion in the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 2015 infective endocarditis guidelines. PET/CT is currently used patients with suspected prosthetic valve and cardiac device-related endocarditis. However, value ESC classification clinical impact PET findings are unkno...

Myxoma jantung merupakan tumor jinak primer yang paling umum, biasanya ada di atrium kiri dengan titik perlekatan daerah fossa ovalis. Modalitas pencitraan untuk diagnosis myxoma antaranya ekokardiografi, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Cardiac is the most common primary benign heart tumor, usually in left with an attachment point ovalis area. Many modalities for car...

Off-pump beating heart surgery requires a guidance system that would show both pertinent cardiac anatomy and dynamic motion both periand intra-operatively. Optimally, the guidance system should show high quality images and models in a cost-effective way and can be easily integrated into standard clinical workflow. However, such a goal is difficult to accomplish by a single image modality. In th...