<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) allows coronary artery visualization and the detection of coronary stenoses. In addition; it has been suggested as a novel, noninvasive modality for coronary atherosclerotic plaque detection, characterization, and quantification. Accurate identification of coronary plaques is challenging, especially for the noncalcified plaques, due to many factors such as the small size of coronary arteries, reconstruction artifacts caused by irregular heartbeats, beam hardening, and partial volume averaging. The development of 16, 32, 64 and the latest 320 row multidetector CT not only increases the spatial and the temporal resolution significantly, but also increases the number of images to be interpreted by radiologists substantially. Radiologists have to visually examine each coronary artery for suspicious stenosis using visualization tools such as multiplanar reformatting (MPR) and curved planar reformatting (CPR) provided by the review workstation in clinical practice</p></abstract>

Coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) allows coronary artery visualization and the detection of coronary stenoses. In addition; it has been suggested as a novel, noninvasive modality for coronary atherosclerotic plaque detection, characterization, and quantification. Accurate identification of coronary plaques is challenging, especially for the noncalcified plaques, due to many factors such as the small size of coronary arteries, reconstruction artifacts caused by irregular heartbeats, beam hardening, and partial volume averaging. The development of 16, 32, 64 and the latest 320 row multidetector CT not only increases the spatial and the temporal resolution significantly, but also increases the number of images to be interpreted by radiologists substantially. Radiologists have to visually examine each coronary artery for suspicious stenosis using visualization tools such as multiplanar reformatting (MPR) and curved planar reformatting (CPR) provided by the review workstation in clinical practice

Applied Imagistics of Ischaemic Heart a Survey. From the Epidemiology of Stable Angina In Order to Better Prevent Sudden Cardiac Death

Faculty of Engineering/Department IIM., "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu, Romania

Faculty of Medicine/ Internal Medicine, "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu, Romania

Faculty of Medicine/ Internal Medicine, "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu

Faculty of Medicine/Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu, Romania

Acta Universitatis Cibiniensis. Technical Series

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Coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) allows coronary artery visualization and the detection of coronary stenoses. In addition; it has been suggested...

Applied Imagistics of Ischaemic Heart a Survey. From the Epidemiology of Stable Angina In Order to Better Prevent Sudden Cardiac Death

Published Online: Dec 30, 2014

Page range: 57 - 62

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/aucts-2014-0011

Keywords
Ischaemic heart disease, Coronary computed tomography, Automated quantification

© 2015

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Applied Imagistics of Ischaemic Heart a Survey. From the Epidemiology of Stable Angina In Order to Better Prevent Sudden Cardiac Death

Published Online: Dec 30, 2014

Page range: 57 - 62

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/aucts-2014-0011

KeywordsIschaemic heart disease, Coronary computed tomography, Automated quantification

© 2015

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Ischaemic heart disease, Coronary computed tomography, Automated quantification