List of Contributors | |
Introduction | |
History of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography | p. 1 |
Physics of and Approaches to Cardiovascular Computed Tomography | p. 17 |
Radiation Dose in Computed Tomography | p. 27 |
Clinical Cardiovascular Computed Tomography | |
Cardiovascular Computed Tomography: A Clinical Perspective | p. 39 |
Computed Tomographic Anatomy of the Heart | p. 53 |
Pathology of Coronary Artery Atherosclerosis: Aspects Relevant to Cardiac Imaging | p. 79 |
Complementary Roles of Computed Tomography and Myocardial Perfusion Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography | p. 89 |
Coronary Artery Calcium Scanning | |
Measurement of Coronary Artery Calcium by Computed Tomography | p. 107 |
Coronary Calcium Scanning for the Prediction of Coronary Stenoses in Symptomatic Patients | p. 119 |
Coronary Artery Calcification and Prediction of Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events | p. 129 |
Progression of Coronary Artery Calcium and its Pharmacologic Modification | p. 143 |
Computed Tomographic Coronary Angiography | |
How to Perform and Interpret Computed Tomography Cornoary Angiography | p. 155 |
Computed Tomographic Angiography for the Detection of Coronary Artery Stenoses | p. 163 |
Computed Tomographic Angiography of Coronary Artery Anomalies | p. 179 |
Noninvasive Evaluation of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts with Multislice Computed Tomography | p. 193 |
Assessment of Coronary Artery Stents by Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiography | p. 201 |
Other Application of Cardiac and Coronary Computed Tomography | |
Computed Tomography of the Myocardium, Pericardium, and Cardiac Chambers | p. 211 |
Assessment of Global and Regional Left Ventricular Function by Computed Tomography | p. 229 |
Assessment of Heart Valve Disease by Computed Tomography | p. 243 |
Multislice Computed Tomography Evaluation of Congenital Heart Disease | p. 261 |
Extracardiac Findings on Cardiac Computed Tomographic Imaging | p. 291 |
Extracardiac Findings on Cardiac Computed Tomographic Imaging | p. 291 |
Peripheral Computed Tomographic Angiography | |
Computed Tomographic Angiography: Technical Consideration | p. 297 |
Computed Tomographic Angiography of the Thoracic Aorta | p. 307 |
Computed Tomography for Pulmonary Embolism | p. 321 |
Computed Tomographic Angiography of the Abdominal Aorta and Iliac Arteries | p. 337 |
Mesenteric and Renal Computed Tomographic Angiography | p. 353 |
Computed Tomographic Arteriography of the Upper and Lower Extremities | p. 367 |
Computed Tomographic Angiography of the Cervical Neurovasculature | p. 391 |
Investigational and Future Uses of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography | |
Cardiovascular Computed Tomography: A Research Perspective | p. 407 |
Computed Tomographic Coronary Angiography for Subclinical Coronary Artery Disease, Coronary Artery Remodeling, and Plaque Imaging | p. 417 |
Imaging of Myocardial Viability and Infarction | p. 429 |
Computed Tomography for the Assessment of Myocardial Perfusion | p. 441 |
Dual-Energy Computed Tomography | p. 451 |
Hybrid Imaging Combining Cardiovascular Computed Tomography with Positron Emission Tomography | p. 463 |
Full-Field Cardiac Imaging using Ultra-High Resolution Flat-Panel Volume-Computed Tomography | p. 473 |
Micro Computed Tomography | p. 491 |
Imaging of Plaques and Vasa Vasorum with Micro-computed Tomography: Towards an Understanding of Unstable Plaque | p. 499 |
Index | p. 509 |
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