Leading clinicians and researchers from around the world review the full scope of current developments, research, and scientific controversy regarding the principles and applications of cardiac CT. Richly illustrated with numerous black-and-white and color images, the book discusses the interpretation of CT images of the heart in a variety of clinical, physiological, and pathological applications. The authors emphasize current state-of-the-art uses of CT, but also examine developments at the horizon. They also review the technical basis of CT image acquisition, as well as tools for image visualization and analysis.

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Part I. Introduction and Historical Background CT of the Heart: Past, Present, and Future William Stanford Part II. Technical Background Electron Beam CT of the Heart David G. Hill Scan Techniques for Cardiac and Coronary Artery Imaging With Multislice CT Bernd M. Ohnesorge, Brian R. Westerman, and U. Joseph Schoepf Image Reconstruction for ECG-Triggered and ECG-Gated Multislice CT Thomas Flohr and Tinsu Pan Phase-Correlated Image Reconstruction Without ECG Marc Kachelriess and Willi A. Kalender Radiation Dose From CT of the Heart Cynthia H. McCollough Part III. Detection and Quantification of Coronary Calcium Coronary Calcium Screening: An Epidemiologic Perspective Christopher J. O'Donnell and Udo Hoffmann Coronary Calcium Scanning: Why We Should Perform It Axel Schmermund, Stefan Möhlenkamp, and Raimund Erbel Detection and Quantification of Coronary Calcium With Electron Beam CT Axel Schmermund, Stefan Möhlenkamp, and Raimund Erbel Detection and Quantification of Coronary Calcium With Dual-Slice CT Joseph Shemesh Detection and Quantification of Calcified Coronary Plaque With Multidetector-Row CT J. Jeffrey Carr Coronary Calcium Scoring With Multidetector-Row CT: Rationale and Scoring Techniques Roman Fischbach and David Maintz Noninvasive Quantification of Coronary Calcium: Quantification Methods, Scanner Types, Scan Protocols, Accuracy, and Reproducibility Stefan Ulzheimer, Kaiss Shanneik, and Willi A. Kalender Part IV. Contrast-Enhanced CT of the Heart: Morphology and Function CT of the Pericardium Reinhard Groell Multidetector-Row CT for Assessment of Cardiac Valves Jürgen K. Willmann and Dominik Weishaupt Multislice CT of the Heart and Great Vessels in Congenital Heart DiseasePatients Jean-François Paul Imaging of Cardiac and Paracardiac Masses and Pseudotumors Bernd J. Wintersperger Multidetector-Row CT Assessment of Left-Ventricular Function Kai Uwe Juergens and Roman Fischbach Imaging Intramyocardial Microcirculatory Function Using Fast Computed Tomography Stefan Möhlenkamp, Axel Schmermund, Birgit Kantor, Raimund Erbel, and Erik L. Ritman Approaches for Assessing Myocardial Viability With Multidetector-Row CT Yasushi Koyama and Teruhito Mochizuki Part V. Contrast-Enhanced CT of the Heart: Coronary Arteries Anatomy of the Coronary Arteries and Veins in CT Imaging Robert J. M. van Geuns and Filippo Cademartiri Techniques and Protocols for Acquisition and Display of Contrast-Enhanced CT Angiography Christoph R. Becker Contrast Material Injection Techniques for CT Angiography of the Coronary Arteries Filippo Cademartiri and Koen Nieman Visualization Techniques for Contrast- Enhanced CT Angiography of Coronary Arteries Jean-Louis Sablayrolles and Pascal Giat CT Angiography for Assessment of Coronary Artery Anomalies Steffen C. Froehner, Matthias Wagner, Juergen Brunn, and Rainer R. Schmitt Multidetector-Row CT for Assessment of Kawasaki Disease Toru Sakuma and Kunihiko Fukuda Multidetector-Row CT of the Coronary Arteries for Planning of Minimally Invasive Bypass Surgery Christopher Herzog, Selami Dogan, and Thomas J. Vogl CT Angiography for Assessment of Coronary Bypass Grafts Marcello De Santis Contrast-Enhanced Electron Beam CT and Multidetector-Row CT in the Evaluation of Coronary Stent Patency Heiko Pump, Stefan Möhlenkamp, Raimund Erbel, and Rainer Seibel CT Angiography for the Detection of Coronary Artery Stenosis Koen Nieman and Filippo Cademartiri Complementary Use of Coronary