Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of mortality in the United States, and invasive angiography (IA) is regarded as the gold standard for its diagnosis. While an indispensable part of our ...

Multislice CT scanners show promise for the noninvasive detection of coronary stenosis. Rapid improvements in technology mean that newer-generation spiral CT scanners are capable of higher spatial and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ORLANDO — Researchers evaluating the diagnostic accuracy of a powerful new 64-slice multidetector computed ...

We conducted a multicenter study to examine the accuracy of 64-row, 0.5-mm multidetector CT angiography as compared with conventional coronary angiography in patients with suspected coronary artery ...

The latest 64-slice CT scanners promise to provide highly accurate, noninvasive measurement of coronary artery stenoses. Leschka and colleagues have recently presented the results of their initial ...

64-slice CT scanner is a new innovation to examine one’s heart.Usually an angiogram is performed where a thin flexible tube is threaded into an artery in the groin or forearm and advanced through the ...

The patient walks in for a heart CT with the new 64-slice scanner at Sequoia Hospital, and there is visible relief. First, the $1.5 million camera is shaped like a doughnut, as opposed to the MRI ...

“CT coronary angiography is a non invasive, painless, fast, OPD basis examination of coronary arteries with the help of fast multi slice CT scanner (16 slice Somatom Sensation Cardiac CT scanner).

New UK recommendations for the assessment of chest pain are prioritizing the use of CT angiography in cases where a diagnosis of stable angina cannot be excluded on the basis of a clinical assessment ...

In a recent paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association, [8] my colleagues and I applied cancer risk models to estimate the lifetime attributable risk of cancer from CTCA. Our risk models ...