Investigators from leading centers now promote CT angiography as a major advance in diagnostics, making it possible for many patients to avoid invasive coronary angiography.2 They provide 3 lines of evidence to make their case. First, in a number of cross-sectional patient-oriented studies, the diagnostic accuracy seems to be high, with claims of sensitivity and negative predictive value approa...

PURPOSE To perform a systematic review of the radiation dose and diagnostic accuracy of prospective versus retrospective ECG-gated multislice CT coronary angiography. MATERIALS AND METHODS A search of Pubmed/Medline and Sciencedirect databases for English literature was performed to identify studies comparing prospective and retrospective ECG-gated multislice CT angiography in the diagnosis o...