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Most advanced CT scanner improves imaging of heart, avoids need for surgical inspection

as a diagnostic tool," he says. Weisfeldt is also the William Osler Professor of Medicine at Hopkins. "As recently as 2003, the technical gold standard used to be 16-CT, in which a procedure would require a 20- to 30-second breath hold in the time it takes to perform the scan. This lengthy, more complicated test really restricted use of CT to experimental purposes."


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