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Computed Tomography in Congenital Heart Disease

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Radiological Imaging of the Neonatal Chest

Part of the book series: Medical Radiology ((Med Radiol Diagn Imaging))

Abstract

Over the past two decades, technological improvements have significantly advanced the role of multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) in noninvasive imaging of children with congenital heart disease (CHD). From the early use of helical CT for imaging congenital anomalies of the extracardiac thoracic vasculature (Hopkins et al. 1996; Westra et al. 1999), MDCT has become an important complementary modality to echocardiography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for the morphologic evaluation of CHD (Goo et al. 2003). In addition, MDCT can now be used to assess coronary artery anatomy, measure regional and global cardiac function (Juergens et al. 2004), and provide morphologic and functional evaluation following operative and catheter intervention for many forms of congenital heart disease (Kawano et al. 2000). MDCT has rapidly evolved to systems which generate isotropic volume data and there are now much improved and faster post-processing techniques for visualizing the vasculature as compared with previously used methods.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Children’s Hospital, Boston, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    Laureen Sena MD

  2. Department of Radiology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, 388-1 Songpa-gu Poongnap-2dong, Seoul, Korea

    Hyun Woo Goo MD

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  1. Department of Radiology, Children’s University Hospital, Temple Street, Dublin 1, Ireland

    Veronica Donoghue MD (Consultant Pediatric Radiologist) (Consultant Pediatric Radiologist)

  2. The National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, Dublin 2, Ireland

    Veronica Donoghue MD (Consultant Pediatric Radiologist) (Consultant Pediatric Radiologist)

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Sena, L., Goo, H.W. (2008). Computed Tomography in Congenital Heart Disease. In: Donoghue, V. (eds) Radiological Imaging of the Neonatal Chest. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-33749-2_17

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