Computed tomography of the heart and cardiovascular system continues to show an impressive and tremendously successful development. Technical improvements translate into new applications and enhanced diagnostic accuracy and the new diagnostic opportunities may potentially be beneficial for many individuals with known or suspected cardiovascular dis

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Front Cover
Contents
Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. History of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
Chapter 2. Physics of and Approaches to Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
Chapter 3. Radiation Dose in Computed Tomography
Chapter 4. Cardiovascular Computed Tomography: A Clinical Perspective
Chapter 5. Computed Tomographic Anatomy of the Heart
Chapter 6. Pathology of Coronary Artery Atherosclerosis: Aspects Relevant to Cardiac Imaging
Chapter 7. Complementary Roles of Computed Tomography and Myocardial Perfusion Single PHoton Emission Computed Tomography
Chapter 8. Measurement of Coronary Artery Calcium by Computed Tomography
Chapter 9. Coronary Calcium Scanning for the Prediction of Coronary Stenoses in Symptomatic Patients
Chapter 10. Coronary Artery Calcification and Prediction of Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events
Chapter 11. Progression of Coronary Artery Calcium and its Pharmacologic Modification
Chapter 12. How to Perform and Interpret Computed Tomography Coronary Angiography
Chapter 13. Computed Tomographic Angiography for the Detection of Coronary Artery Stenoses
Chapter 14. Computed Tomographic Angiography of Coronary Artery Anomalies
Chapter 15. Noninvasive Evaluation of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts with Multislice Computed Tomography
Chapter 16. Assessment of Coronary Artery Stents by Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiography
Chapter 17. Computed Tomography of the Myocardium, Pericardium, and Cardiac Chambers
Chapter 18. Assessment of Global and Regional Left Ventricular Function by Computed Tomography
Chapter 19. Assessment of Heart Valve Disease by Computed Tomography
Chapter 20. Multislice Computed Tomography Evaluation of Congenital Heart Disease
Chapter 21. Computed Tomographic Imaging of the Cardiac and Pulmonary Veins: Role in Electrophysiology
Chapter 22. Extracardiac Findings on Cardiac Computed Tomographic Imaging
Chapter 23. Computed Tomographic Angiography: Technical Considerations
Chapter 24. Computed Tomographic Angiography of the Thoriacic Aorta
Chapter 25. Computed Tomography for Pulmonary Embolism
Chapter 26. Computed Tomographic Angiography of the Abdominal Aorta and Iliac Arteries
Chapter 27. Mesenteric and Renal Computed Tomographic Angiography
Chapter 28. Computed Tomographic Arteriography of the Upper and Lower Extremities
Chapter 29. Computed Tomographic Angiography of the Cervical Neurovasculature
Chapter 30. Cardiovascular Computed Tomography: A Research Perspective
Chapter 31. Computed Tomographic Coronary Angiography for Subclinical Coronary Artery Disease, Coronary Artery Remodeling, and Plaque Imaging
Chapter 32. Imaging of Myocardial Viability and Infarction
Chapter 33. Computed Tomography for the Assessment of Myocardial Perfusion
Chapter 34. Dual-Energy Computed Tomography
Chapter 35. Hybrid Imaging Combining Cardiovascular Computed Tomography with Positron Emission Tomography
Chapter 36. Full-Field Cardiac Imaging using Ultra-High Resolution Flat-Panel Volume-Computed Tomography
Chapter 37. Micro Computed Tomography
Chapter 38. Imaging of Plaques and Vasa Vasorum with Micro-computed Tomography: Towards an Understanding of Unstable Plaque
Index
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