Title |
A multifunctional CT technology: Reality or illusion for patient risk assessment?
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Published in |
Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, March 2016
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DOI | 10.1007/s12350-016-0439-x |
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Authors |
Tomoaki Nakata |
Abstract |
A high-speed, multi-slice coronary computed tomography (CT) imaging has emerged as a promising or clinically available multifunctional technique for the assessment of myocardial ischemia, viability, ischemia-induced cardiac dysfunction, and coronary atherosclerotic alterations in patients with suspected or known coronary artery disease. Despite several technical issues remain to be resolved, cardiac CT imaging will have a reality as a multifunctional modality for guiding physicians in better decision-making for favorable clinical outcomes in patients with suspected coronary artery disease, provided that this imaging technology can contribute to characterization and localization of high-risk coronary atherosclerosis in combination with the quantitative evaluation of functional myocardial ischemia. |
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