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The quest for non-invasive imaging of cardiac maladies began with conventional radiography and continues to day. Echocardiography has established itself as the screening and diagnostic modality of choice for a variety of cardiac ailments. Since the early 1990s, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has also become an imaging standard of reference for a variety of cardiac pathologies, including cardiac tumors, myocarditis, cardiomyopathies, viability, complex congenital heart diseases, and valvular heart diseases. However, up until the development of multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) scanners, the imaging of coronary artery diseases with a noninvasive imaging test was a largely elusive approach; instead, invasive conventional coronary catheterization remained and, to date, firmly remains, the imaging modality for most coronary artery diseases.
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Kalra, M.K. (2008). Dual-Source CT: Practical Aspects of Techniques and Applications. In: Kalra, M.K., Saini, S., Rubin, G.D. (eds) MDCT. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-0832-8_5
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