Abstract
Noninvasive or minimally invasive medical imaging has allowed safe, serial assessment of patients with proven or suspected cardiac and/or vascular disease in both in- and out-of-hospital situations. Evaluation of such patients by radionuclide angiography, cardiac perfusion field imaging, transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), conventional X-ray computed tomography (EBCT) and peripheral ultrasound is now commonplace in clinical practice. Electron beam computed tomography (EBCT) has emerged as yet another powerful means to examine and quantitate cardiovascular anatomy, function, and flow in patients presenting with a variety of diseases of the heart, coronary arteries, pericardium, and great vessels. The three-dimensional registration of the images provides the clinician with qualitative and quantitative information regarding the patient which aids diagnosis, allows prognostic forecasting, and helps guide or monitor acute and long-term responses to pharmacologic and/or surgical interventions.
Keywords
- Coronary Artery Calcium
- Coronary Calcium
- Electron Beam Compute Tomography
- Electron Beam Technology
- Ultrafast Compute Tomography
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Rumberger, J.A. (1997). Electron Beam Computed Tomography and Cardiovascular Imaging. In: Lanzer, P., Lipton, M. (eds) Diagnostics of Vascular Diseases. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60512-3_16
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