Computed Tomography Imaging in 2012, An Issue of Cardiology Clinics [NOOK Book]

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Cardiac CT obtains information about coronary arteries, great arteries and veins, and heart valves.  It shows the location and extent of calcified plaque in the coronary arteries and helps detect coronary artery disease at an early stage, which neither traditional imaging techniques nor cardiac testing  can do. Over the last decade technologic advances in CT angiography have been made at a rapid rate, and the new applications and refinements of existing technology continue to be made.  This issue will help ...
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Computed Tomography Imaging in 2012, An Issue of Cardiology Clinics

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Overview

Cardiac CT obtains information about coronary arteries, great arteries and veins, and heart valves.  It shows the location and extent of calcified plaque in the coronary arteries and helps detect coronary artery disease at an early stage, which neither traditional imaging techniques nor cardiac testing  can do. Over the last decade technologic advances in CT angiography have been made at a rapid rate, and the new applications and refinements of existing technology continue to be made.  This issue will help practicing cardiologists to keep up with the latest technology in this important and swiftly moving field.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781455742691
  • Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
  • Publication date: 2/28/2012
  • Series: Clinics: Internal Medicine
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 960
  • File size: 5 MB

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Department of Cardiology, University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

Takase Clinic, Takasaki City, Japan

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Table of Contents

Foreword: Update on Cardiac CT Michael H. Crawford xi

Cardiac CT Imaging: Precocious Maturity? Stephan Achenbach Takeshi Kondo Jagat Narula xiii

Technical Advances in Cardiac CT Stephan Achenbach Takeshi Kondo 1

Minimizing Radiation Dose for Coronary CT Angiography Gabriel Vorobiof Stephan Achenbach Jagat Narula 9

Coronary Artery Calcification and Coronary Atherosclerotic Disease Ramil Goel Pankaj Garg Stephan Achenbach Abha Gupta Jeremy J. Song Nathan D. Wong Leslee J. Shaw Jagat Narula 19

Coronary Artery Calcium Testing: Dos and Don'ts Tamar S. Polonsky Donald M. Lloyd-Jones 49

Identifying and Redefining Stenosis by CT Angiography Minisha Kochar Reza Arsanjani Subha V. Raman Leslee J. Shaw Daniel S. Berman James K. Min 57

Evaluation of Plaque Morphology by Coronary CT Angiography Shinichiro Fujimoto Takeshi Kondo Jagat Narula 69

Prognostic Value of Coronary CT Angiography Michael K. Cheezum Edward A. Hulten Collin Fischer Ryan M. Smith Ahmad M. Slim Todd C. Villines 77

Subtraction Coronary CT Angiography for Calcified Lesions Kunihiro Yoshioka Ryoichi Tanaka Kenta Muranaka 93

CT Detection of Pulmonary Embolism and Aortic Dissection Philipp Blanke Paul Apfaltrer Ullrich Ebersberger Andreas Schindler Mathias Langer U. Joseph Schoepf 103

Cardiac CT in the Emergency Department Harald Seifarth Christopher L. Schlett Quynh A. Truong Udo Hoffmann 117

Myocardial Perfusion by CT Versus Hybrid Imaging Richard T. George Vishal C. Mehra Antti Saraste Juhani Knuuti 135

MDCT to Guide Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement and Mitral Valve Repair Jonathon Leipsic Cameron J. Hague Ronen Gurvitch Amr M. Ajlan Troy M. Labounty James K. Min 147

Index 161

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