- A comprehensive and richly-illustrated guide to cardiac CT
- Takes a patient-centric approach to cardiac CT
- Includes coverage of avant-garde technologies enabling enhanced visualization, quantitative imaging, and functional assessment, along with exciting deep learning, and artificial intelligence applications
This book is a comprehensive and richly-illustrated guide to cardiac CT, its current state, applications, and future directions.
While the first edition of this text focused on what was then a novel instrument looking for application, this edition comes at a time where a wealth of guideline-driven, robust, and beneficial clinical applications have evolved that are enabled by an enormous and ever growing field of technology. Accordingly, the focus of the text has shifted from a technology-centric to a more patient-centric appraisal. While the specifications and capabilities of the CT system itself remain front and center as the basis for diagnostic success, much of the benefit derived from cardiac CT today comes from avant-garde technologies enabling enhanced visualization, quantitative imaging, and functional assessment, along with exciting deep learning, and artificial intelligence applications.
Cardiac CT is no longer a mere tool for non-invasive coronary artery stenosis detection in the chest pain diagnostic algorithms; cardiac CT has proven its value for uses as diverse as personalized cardiovascular risk stratification, prediction, and management, diagnosing lesion-specific ischemia, guiding minimally invasive structural heart disease therapy, and planning cardiovascular surgery, among many others.
This second edition is an authoritative guide and reference for both novices and experts in the medical imaging sciences who have an interest in cardiac CT.
Table of ContentsPart I. Introduction and Historical Background
- CT of the Heart: Past, Present, and Future
Part II. Technical Background
- Electron Beam CT of the Heart
- Scan Techniques for Cardiac and Coronary Artery Imaging With Multislice CT
- Image Reconstruction for ECG-Triggered and ECG-Gated Multislice CT
- Phase-Correlated Image Reconstruction Without ECG
- Radiation Dose From CT of the Heart
Part III. Detection and Quantification of Coronary Calcium
- Coronary Calcium Screening: An Epidemiologic Perspective
- Coronary Calcium Scanning: Why We Should Perform It
- Detection and Quantification of Coronary Calcium With Electron Beam CT
- Detection and Quantification of Coronary Calcium With Dual-Slice CT
- Detection and Quantification of Calcified Coronary Plaque With Multidetector-Row CT
- Coronary Calcium Scoring With Multidetector-Row CT: Rationale and Scoring Techniques
- Noninvasive Quantification of Coronary Calcium: Quantification Methods, Scanner Types, Scan Protocols, Accuracy, and Reproducibility
Part IV. Contrast-Enhanced CT of the Heart: Morphology and Function
- CT of the Pericardium
- Multidetector-Row CT for Assessment of Cardiac Valves
- Multislice CT of the Heart and Great Vessels in Congenital Heart Disease Patients
- Imaging of Cardiac and Paracardiac Masses and Pseudotumors
- Multidetector-Row CT Assessment of Left-Ventricular Function
- Imaging Intramyocardial Microcirculatory Function Using Fast Computed Tomography
- Approaches for Assessing Myocardial Viability With Multidetector-Row CT
Part V. Contrast-Enhanced CT of the Heart: Coronary Arteries
- Anatomy of the Coronary Arteries and Veins in CT Imaging
- Techniques and Protocols for Acquisition and Display of Contrast-Enhanced CT Angiography
- Contrast Material Injection Techniques for CT Angiography of the Coronary Arteries
- Visualization Techniques for Contrast- Enhanced CT Angiography of Coronary Arteries
- CT Angiography for Assessment of Coronary Artery Anomalies
- Multidetector-Row CT for Assessment of Kawasaki Disease
- Multidetector-Row CT of the Coronary Arteries for Planning of Minimally Invasive Bypass Surgery
- CT Angiography for Assessment of Coronary Bypass Grafts
- Contrast-Enhanced Electron Beam CT and Multidetector-Row CT in the Evaluation of Coronary Stent Patency
- CT Angiography for the Detection of Coronary Artery Stenosis
- Complementary Use of Coronary Calcium Scoring and CT Angiography
- CT vs Magnetic Resonance for Imaging of the Coronary Arteries
Part VI. Contrast-Enhanced CT of the Heart: Principles of Atherosclerosis and Vessel Wall Imaging
- Pathology and Pathophysiology of Coronary Atherosclerotic Plaques
- Pathogenesis of the Vulnerable Atherosclerotic Plaque
