Assessment of coronary artery disease by cardiac computed tomography: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association Committee on Cardiovascular …

MJ Budoff, S Achenbach, RS Blumenthal, JJ Carr… - Circulation, 2006‏ - ahajournals.org
This scientific statement reviews the scientific data for cardiac computed tomography (CT)
related to imaging of coronary artery disease (CAD) and atherosclerosis. Cardiac CT is a CT …

ACCF/ACR/AHA/NASCI/SAIP/SCAI/SCCT 2010 expert consensus document on coronary computed tomographic angiography: a report of the American College of …

DB Mark, DS Berman, MJ Budoff, JJ Carr… - Journal of the American …, 2010‏ - jacc.org
The writing committee consisted of acknowledged experts in the field of CTA, as well as a
liaison from the ACCF Task Force on Clinical ECDs, the oversight group for this document …

Computed tomographic angiography characteristics of atherosclerotic plaques subsequently resulting in acute coronary syndrome

S Motoyama, M Sarai, H Harigaya, H Anno… - Journal of the American …, 2009‏ - jacc.org
Objectives: In a computed tomographic (CT) angiography study, we identified the
characteristics of atherosclerotic lesions that were associated with subsequent development …

First performance evaluation of a dual-source CT (DSCT) system

TG Flohr, CH McCollough, H Bruder, M Petersilka… - European …, 2006‏ - Springer
We present a performance evaluation of a recently introduced dual-source computed
tomography (DSCT) system equipped with two X-ray tubes and two corresponding …

Multislice computed tomographic characteristics of coronary lesions in acute coronary syndromes

S Motoyama, T Kondo, M Sarai, A Sugiura… - Journal of the American …, 2007‏ - jacc.org
Objectives: To evaluate the feasibility of noninvasive assessment of the characteristics of
disrupted atherosclerotic plaques, the authors interrogated the culprit lesions in acute …

Napkin-ring sign on coronary CT angiography for the prediction of acute coronary syndrome

K Otsuka, S Fukuda, A Tanaka, K Nakanishi… - JACC: Cardiovascular …, 2013‏ - jacc.org
Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the predictive value of the napkin-ring
sign on coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) for future acute coronary …

Detection of calcified and noncalcified coronary atherosclerotic plaque by contrast-enhanced, submillimeter multidetector spiral computed tomography: a segment …

S Achenbach, F Moselewski, D Ropers, M Ferencik… - Circulation, 2004‏ - ahajournals.org
Background—We investigated the ability of multidetector spiral computed tomography
(MDCT) to detect atherosclerotic plaque in nonstenotic coronary arteries. Methods and …

Accuracy of multidetector spiral computed tomography in identifying and differentiating the composition of coronary atherosclerotic plaques: a comparative study with …

AW Leber, A Knez, A Becker, C Becker… - Journal of the American …, 2004‏ - jacc.org
Objectives: We evaluated the accuracy of contrast-enhanced multidetector spiral computed
tomography (MDCT) for the noninvasive detection and classification of coronary plaques …

Cardiac computed tomography: indications, applications, limitations, and training requirements: report of a Writing Group deployed by the Working Group Nuclear …

S Schroeder, S Achenbach, F Bengel… - European heart …, 2008‏ - academic.oup.com
As a consequence of improved technology, there is growing clinical interest in the use of
multi-detector row computed tomography (MDCT) for non-invasive coronary angiography …

Multi–detector row CT systems and image-reconstruction techniques

TG Flohr, S Schaller, K Stierstorfer, H Bruder… - Radiology, 2005‏ - pubs.rsna.org
The introduction in 1998 of multi–detector row computed tomography (CT) by the major CT
vendors was a milestone with regard to increased scan speed, improved z-axis spatial …