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An understanding of detailed 3-D cardiac anatomy is important to the field of cardiac electrophysiology. Cardiovascular computed tomographic angiography (CCTA) can comprehensively assess cardiovascular structure and function relevant to the assessment, treatment, and follow-up of patients with electrophysiologically-related disease processes. CCTA provides 3-D visualization of cardiac chambers, coronary vessels, and thoracic vasculature including structures particularly important to cardiac electrophysiology, such as the coronary veins, pulmonary veins, and left atrium. This comprehensive technology is extremely useful for the identification and characterization of cardiovascular substrates relevant to cardiac electrophysiology, and has great relevance to treatment of arrhythmias through preprocedure planning, procedural facilitation, and procedural follow-up.

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    Jerold S. Shinbane MD, FACC, FHRS, FSCCT

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Shinbane, J.S., Girsky, M.J., Saxon, L.A., Cao, M.K., Cesario, D.A., Budoff, M.J. (2010). CT Imaging: Cardiac Electrophysiology Applications. In: Budoff, M., Shinbane, J. (eds) Cardiac CT Imaging. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-650-2_22

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