Abstract
Both modalities, CT and MRI, have competed with each other in recent years to get to the ultimate goal: a one-stop-shop for comprehensive information on one’s heart status. This race led to sophisticated technical innovations on both sides but has not yet succeeded, and it unlikely will. At present, the patient’s clinical history is the most important information and basis for choosing the appropriate modality. As shown by many recent studies, cardiac CT allows for a reliable exclusion of significant CAD in proper patient populations, based on its constantly high NPV. In addition to this application, the assessment of bypass patency and even the morphologic evaluation in congenital heart disease (CHD) may be clinically relevant. MR is the modality of choice in any functional aspect of cardiac imaging, whether focusing on cardiac and valvular function or perfusion. Based on its imaging toolbox, it may also be applied in patients with advanced CAD and even more importantly, in the differential diagnosis of the wide variety of nonischemic cardiac diseases. Cardiac MR covers a substantially wider range of diseases than CT; suspicion of CAD though, a key indication for cardiac CT makes the largest share of all cardiac patients.
Keywords
- Single Photon Emission Compute Tomography
- Myocardial Perfusion
- Congenital Heart Disease
- Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
- Myocardial Perfusion Imaging
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Wintersperger, B. (2009). Complementary Role of Cardiac CT and MRI. In: Reiser, M., Becker, C., Nikolaou, K., Glazer, G. (eds) Multislice CT. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-33125-4_21
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