Open AccessAnatomy of the Heart at Multidetector CT: What the Radiologist Needs to Know
Author(s) -
James P. O’Brien,
Monvadi B. Srichai,
Elizabeth M. Hecht,
Danny Kim,
Jill E. Jacobs
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
radiographics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.866
H-Index - 172
eISSN - 1527-1323
pISSN - 0271-5333
DOI - 10.1148/rg.276065747
Subject(s) - medicine , multidetector computed tomography , voxel , cardiac imaging , radiology , computed tomographic , medical physics , nuclear medicine , computed tomography
Continued improvements in multidetector computed tomographic (CT) scanners have made cardiac CT an important clinical tool that is revolutionizing cardiac imaging. Multidetector CT with submillimeter collimation and gantry rotation times under 0.5 seconds allows the acquisition of studies with high temporal resolution and isotropic voxels. The volumetric data set that is generated can be analyzed with a depth previously not possible, requiring a solid understanding of the cardiac anatomy and its appearance on CT scans and postprocessed images.