A systematic report on non-coronary cardiac CTA in 1097 patients from the German cardiac CT registry

2020 ◽  
Vol 130 ◽  
pp. 109136
Author(s):  
Gitsios Gitsioudis ◽  
Mohamed Marwan ◽  
Steffen Schneider ◽  
Axel Schmermund ◽  
Grigorios Korosoglou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cardiac Ct ◽  
Cardiac Cta

Criteria Elucidate the Role of Cardiac CT and MR

2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (21) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
KERRI WACHTER
Keyword(s):  
Cardiac Ct

Societies Join to Update Cardiac CT Criteria

2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (19) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
SHERRY BOSCHERT
Keyword(s):  
Cardiac Ct

scholarly journals Alavi–Carlsen Calcification Score (ACCS): A Simple Measure of Global Cardiac Atherosclerosis Burden

Diagnostics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 1421
Author(s):  
Babak Saboury ◽  
Lars Edenbrandt ◽  
Reza Piri ◽  
Oke Gerke ◽  
Tom Werner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Arterial Wall ◽  
Cardiac Ct ◽  
Standardized Uptake Value ◽  
Coronary Calcification ◽  
High Affinity ◽  
Maximum Standardized Uptake Value ◽  
Atherosclerotic Burden ◽  
Calcification Score ◽  
Pet Ct ◽  
The Individual

Multislice cardiac CT characterizes late stage macrocalcification in epicardial arteries as opposed to PET/CT, which mirrors early phase arterial wall changes in epicardial and transmural coronary arteries. With regard to tracer, there has been a shift from using mainly 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG), indicating inflammation, to applying predominantly 18F-sodium fluoride (NaF) due to its high affinity for arterial wall microcalcification and more consistent association with cardiovascular risk factors. To make NaF-PET/CT an indispensable adjunct to clinical assessment of cardiac atherosclerosis, the Alavi–Carlsen Calcification Score (ACCS) has been proposed. It constitutes a global assessment of cardiac atherosclerosis burden in the individual patient, supported by an artificial intelligence (AI)-based approach for fast observer-independent segmentation. Common measures for characterizing epicardial coronary atherosclerosis by NaF-PET/CT as the maximum standardized uptake value (SUV) or target-to-background ratio are more versatile, error prone, and less reproducible than the ACCS, which equals the average cardiac SUV. The AI-based approach ensures a quick and easy delineation of the entire heart in 3D to obtain the ACCS expressing ongoing global cardiac atherosclerosis, even before it gives rise to CT-detectable coronary calcification. The quantification of global cardiac atherosclerotic burden by the ACCS is suited for management triage and monitoring of disease progression with and without intervention.

Dose performance and image quality: Dual source CT versus single source CT in cardiac CT angiography

2009 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 396-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Wang ◽  
Heng-Tao Qi ◽  
Xi-Ming Wang ◽  
Tao Wang ◽  
Jiu-Hong Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Image Quality ◽  
Ct Angiography ◽  
Cardiac Ct ◽  
Dual Source Ct ◽  
Single Source ◽  
Cardiac Ct Angiography ◽  
Dual Source
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