Computed tomography has potential to offer accurate, safer method for detecting artery disease
...tially complement invasive coronary angiography is multislice computed tomography (MSCT), which may achieve a high level of reliability and accuracy in the visualization of the coronary arteries. MSCT is a sophisticated x-ray imaging technique, in which a CT tube and multiple layered detector rows rotate around...SCAI Founders' Lecture traces impressive progress in interventional cardiology
...y powerful noninvasive imaging techniques, such as multislice computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging, to evaluate the health of the artery. Enter bioabsorbable stents, experimental devices that have recently been implanted in humans for the first time. Bioabsorbable stents have all the strength of a...SCAI Hildner Lecture highlights innovative techniques for plaque imaging
...ting vulnerable plaque. Among noninvasive methods, multislice computed tomography is generating the greatest excitement today. Easy to use and available in every major medical center, high-end CT scanners create colorful and detailed pictures of the coronary arteries. Invasive techniques are more complicated a...Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for Sept. 19, 2006
...ients with suspected coronary artery disease using multislice computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imagi...e sensitivity and specificity of the less-invasive multislice CT and non-invasive MRI (Article, p. 407). The researchers found that the multislice CT was superi...Multislice CT speeds the diagnosis of chest pain in the emergency room
..., a third dose during cardiac catheterization. "If multislice CT does not give a definitive diagnosis, alternative diagnostic strategies that avoid radiation exposureshould be investigated," Dr. de Feyter said. Dr. Goldstein reports no potential conflicts of interest regarding this topic. Also in this is...