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This book is a comprehensive and richly-illustrated guide to cardiac CT, its current state, applications, and future directions. While the first edition of this text focused on what was then a novel instrument looking for application, this edition comes at a time where a wealth of guideline-driven, robust, and beneficial clinical applications have evolved that are enabled by an enormous and ever growing field of technology. Accordingly, the focus of the text has shifted from a technology-centric to a more patient-centric appraisal. While the specifications and capabilities of the CT system itself remain front and center as the basis for diagnostic success, much of the benefit derived from cardiac CT today comes from avant-garde technologies enabling enhanced visualization, quantitative imaging, and functional assessment, along with exciting deep learning, and artificial intelligence applications. Cardiac CT is no longer a mere tool for non-invasive coronary artery stenosis detection in the chest pain diagnostic algorithms; cardiac CT has proven its value for uses as diverse as personalized cardiovascular risk stratification, prediction, and management, diagnosing lesion-specific ischemia, guiding minimally invasive structural heart disease therapy, and planning cardiovascular surgery, among many others. This second edition is an authoritative guide and reference for both novices and experts in the medical imaging sciences who have an interest in cardiac CT.

Heart --- Tomography. --- Cardiographic tomography --- Diseases --- Tomography --- Radiography --- Radiology, Medical. --- Cardiology. --- Imaging / Radiology. --- Internal medicine --- Clinical radiology --- Radiology, Medical --- Radiology (Medicine) --- Medical physics --- Radiology. --- Radiological physics --- Physics --- Radiation

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Cardiac computed tomography (CT) has become a highly accurate diagnostic modality that continues to attract increasing attention. This extensively illustrated book aims to assist the reader in integrating cardiac CT into daily clinical practice, while also reviewing its current technical status and applications. Clear guidance is provided on the performance and interpretation of imaging using the latest technology, which offers greater coverage, better spatial resolution, and faster imaging while also providing functional information about cardiac diseases. The specific features of scanners from all four main vendors, including those that have only recently become available, are presented. Among the wide range of applications and issues discussed are coronary calcium scoring, coronary artery bypass grafts, stents, and anomalies, cardiac valves and function, congenital and acquired heart disease, and radiation exposure. Upcoming clinical uses of cardiac CT, such as hybrid imaging, preparation and follow-up after valve replacement, electrophysiology applications, myocardial perfusion and fractional flow reserve assessment, and plaque imaging, are also explored.

Cardiovascular system --- Heart --- Tomography. --- Cardiographic tomography --- Circulatory system --- Vascular system --- Blood --- Diseases --- Tomography --- Radiography --- Circulation --- Radiology, Medical. --- Cardiology. --- Internal medicine. --- Imaging / Radiology. --- Internal Medicine. --- Medicine, Internal --- Medicine --- Internal medicine --- Clinical radiology --- Radiology, Medical --- Radiology (Medicine) --- Medical physics --- Radiology. --- Radiological physics --- Physics --- Radiation

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This book focuses on the rapidly developing and promising novel applications of Dual Energy CT (DECT) in cardiovascular medicine. Although developed many years ago, DECT represents the newest significant advancement in the field of computed tomography, the clinical utility of which has recently expanded as many new applications have been developed. In the field of cardiovascular medicine, DECT has been applied for purposes such as the evaluation of myocardial ischemia, myocardial viability and atherosclerotic plaque characterization.   As the first book of its kind, Dual-Energy CT in Cardiovascular Imaging contains practical and clinically relevant information on the protocols used that provide precise quantification of coronary artery stenosis using either different monochromatic levels or material decomposition, reduction of beam hardening artifacts in perfusion studies and optimizing endovenous contrast, among others. It is therefore a valuable read for residents, fellows and practicing clinicians in cardiac imaging and cardiology.

Cardiovascular Diseases --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Heart --- Dual energy CT (Tomography) --- Tomography. --- DECT (Tomography) --- Dual energy computed tomography --- Spectral computed tomography --- Spectral CT (Tomography) --- Cardiographic tomography --- Diseases --- Tomography --- Medicine. --- Radiology. --- Cardiology. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Imaging / Radiology. --- Radiography --- Radiology, Medical. --- Clinical radiology --- Radiology, Medical --- Radiology (Medicine) --- Medical physics --- Internal medicine --- Radiological physics --- Physics --- Radiation

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CT imaging has become a mainstay of medical imaging. After 30 years this is a mature technology but the accumulation of innovations over the past decades have given it extraordinary capabilities and new applications continue to emerge. In this book Alex Mamourian uses early CT technology to explain the fundamentals of CT imaging and then builds on that base to explain how innovations such as slip-ring and multidetector arrays allow for rapid, high resolution imaging. This book covers complex applications such as CT cardiac imaging and dual-source dual-energy CT scanning as well as the pitfalls

Tomography. --- Nervous system --- Radiation dosimetry. --- Radiation --- Whole body imaging. --- Heart --- Cardiographic tomography --- Whole body scanning --- Whole body screening --- Diagnostic imaging --- Radiation monitoring --- Radiation protection --- Dosimetry --- Nuclear counters --- Neuroradiography --- Neuroradiology --- Body section radiography --- Computed tomography --- Computer tomography --- Computerized tomography --- CT (Computed tomography) --- Laminagraphy --- Laminography --- Radiological stratigraphy --- Stratigraphy, Radiological --- Tomographic imaging --- Zonography --- Cross-sectional imaging --- Radiography, Medical --- Geometric tomography --- Radiography. --- Safety measures. --- Diseases --- Tomography --- Radiography --- Dosage --- Measurement

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This book provides comprehensive reviews on our most recent understanding of the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying atherosclerosis and calcific aortic valve disease (CAVD) as visualized in animal models and patients using optical molecular imaging, PET-CT, ultrasound, and MRI. In addition to presenting up-to-date information on the multimodality imaging of specific pro-inflammatory or pro-calcification pathways in atherosclerosis and CAVD, the book addresses the intriguing issue of whether cardiovascular calcification is an inflammatory disease, as has been recently supported by several preclinical and clinical imaging studies. In order to familiarize researchers and clinicians from other specialties with the basic mechanisms involved, chapters on the fundamental pathobiology of atherosclerosis and CAVD are also included. The imaging chapters, written by some of the foremost investigators in the field, are so organized as to reveal the nature of the involved mechanisms as disease progresses.

Medicine & Public Health. --- Cardiology. --- Nuclear Medicine. --- Imaging / Radiology. --- Medicine. --- Radiology, Medical. --- Nuclear medicine. --- Médecine --- Médecine nucléaire --- Cardiologie --- Cardiovascular system -- Imaging. --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Cardiovascular Diseases --- Heart --- Cardiovascular system --- Aorta --- Calcification. --- Atherosclerosis. --- Imaging. --- Magnetic resonance imaging. --- Tomography. --- Diseases --- Diagnosis. --- Cardiac diagnostic imaging --- Cardiac imaging --- Diagnostic cardiac imaging --- Imaging of the heart --- Cardiographic tomography --- Circulatory system --- Vascular system --- Imaging --- Tomography --- Radiology. --- Blood --- Arteriosclerosis --- Biomineralization --- Bone --- Calcium in the body --- Arteries --- Chest --- Radiography --- Circulation --- Clinical radiology --- Radiology, Medical --- Radiology (Medicine) --- Medical physics --- Atomic medicine --- Radioisotopes in medicine --- Medical radiology --- Radioactive tracers --- Radioactivity --- Internal medicine --- Physiological effect --- Radiological physics --- Physics --- Radiation