Artifacts at cardiac CT: physics and solutions

K Kalisz, J Buethe, SS Saboo, S Abbara… - Radiographics, 2016 - pubs.rsna.org
Computed tomography is vulnerable to a wide variety of artifacts, including patient-and
technique-specific artifacts, some of which are unique to imaging of the heart. Motion is the …

Image quality in coronary CT angiography: challenges and technical solutions

O Ghekiere, R Salgado, N Buls, T Leiner… - The British journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Multidetector CT angiography (CTA) has become a widely accepted examination for non-
invasive evaluation of the heart and coronary arteries. Despite its ongoing success and …

Recent advances in CT image reconstruction

J Hsieh, B Nett, Z Yu, K Sauer, JB Thibault… - Current Radiology …, 2013 - Springer
Over the past two decades, rapid system and hardware development of x-ray computed
tomography (CT) technologies has been accompanied by equally exciting advances in …

Recent and future directions in CT imaging

NJ Pelc - Annals of biomedical engineering, 2014 - Springer
Computed tomography (CT) has made enormous technical advances since its introduction
into clinical use. The engineering improvements have in turn led to important clinical …

Current and novel imaging techniques in coronary CT

H Machida, I Tanaka, R Fukui, Y Shen, T Ishikawa… - Radiographics, 2015 - pubs.rsna.org
Multidetector coronary computed tomography (CT), which is widely performed to assess
coronary artery disease noninvasively and accurately, provides excellent image quality. Use …

Selecting a CT scanner for cardiac imaging: the heart of the matter

MA Lewis, A Pascoal, SF Keevil… - The British journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Coronary angiography to assess the presence and degree of arterial stenosis is an
examination now routinely performed on CT scanners. Although developments in CT …

Cardiac CT blooming artifacts: clinical significance, root causes and potential solutions

JD Pack, M Xu, G Wang, L Baskaran, J Min… - Visual Computing for …, 2022 - Springer
This review paper aims to summarize cardiac CT blooming artifacts, how they present
clinically and what their root causes and potential solutions are. A literature survey was …

Image quality and radiation dose of coronary CT angiography performed with whole-heart coverage CT scanner with intra-cycle motion correction algorithm in patients …

D Andreini, G Pontone, S Mushtaq, ME Mancini… - European …, 2018 - Springer
Objectives To evaluate image quality, coronary evaluability and radiation exposure of
coronary CT angiography (CCTA) performed with whole-heart coverage cardiac-CT in …

[PDF][PDF] Clinical applications of wide-detector CT scanners for cardiothoracic imaging: an update

EJ Kang - Korean Journal of Radiology, 2019 - synapse.koreamed.org
Technical developments in multidetector computed tomography (CT) have increased the
number of detector rows on the z-axis, and 16-cm wide-area-coverage CT scanners have …

Motion artefact reduction in coronary CT angiography images with a deep learning method

P Ren, Y He, Y Zhu, T Zhang, J Cao, Z Wang… - BMC Medical Imaging, 2022 - Springer
Background The aim of this study was to investigate the ability of a pixel-to-pixel generative
adversarial network (GAN) to remove motion artefacts in coronary CT angiography (CCTA) …