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Coronary Atherosclerosis in Multislice Computed Tomography

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Abstract

Cardiac imaging is a highly demanding application for any cross-sectional imaging modality. To virtually freeze cardiac motion and to avoid motion artifacts, high temporal resolution is needed. Many parts of the cardiac morphology, and especially the coronary arteries, represent small and complex three-dimensional (3D) structures that require high and at best sub-millimeter isotropic spatial resolution. For the last decade, computed tomography (CT) investigation of the heart was exclusively the domain of electron beam CT (EBCT). In these dedicated cardiac CT scanners, electrons are accelerated in a vacuum funnel and focused on four 210° tungsten target rings underneath the patient. X-ray radiation is emitted, passing through the patient, and is detected using two 240° detector rings above the patient. The design of these scanners was primarily chosen to allow for perfusion [17] and cine [12] imaging of the myocardium at eight levels, combined with a minimal exposure time of 50 ms per slice.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Diagnostic Radiology, University Hospital, Rämistrasse 100, CH-8091, Zürich, Switzerland

    Borut Marincek M. D. (Professor and Chairman) (Professor and Chairman)

  2. Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    Pablo R. Ros M. D., MPH (Vice Chairman, Operations & Planning Director, Partners Radiology Professor of Radiology) (Vice Chairman, Operations & Planning Director, Partners Radiology Professor of Radiology)

  3. Department of Clinical Radiology Klinikum Grosshadern, Ludwig Maximilians-University, Marchioninistrasse 15, D-81377, Munich, Deutschland

    Maximilian Reiser M. D. (Professor and Chairman) (Professor and Chairman)

  4. Head,Section of Abdominal Imaging Division of Radiology, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH, 44195, USA

    Mark E. Baker M. D.

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Becker, C.R., Ohnesorge, B.M., Schoepf, U.J., Reiser, M.F. (2001). Coronary Atherosclerosis in Multislice Computed Tomography. In: Marincek, B., Ros, P.R., Reiser, M., Baker, M.E. (eds) Multislice CT: A Practical Guide. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59450-2_10

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