tailieunhanh - Cardiac CT Imaging Diagnosis of Cardiovascular Disease

Since its introduction in the early 1970s, computed tomography (CT) has become a robust modality to evaluate extracranial, thoracic, and abdominal vascular distributions. It has become a gold standard to non-invasively image the aorta, pulmonary arteries, great vessels, renal and peripheral arteries. However, cardiac anatomy evaluation with this modality was not possible, due to rapid cardiac motion and slow image acquisition times. Since the introduction of the first dedicated cardiac CT scanner, the electron beam CT (EBCT), the diagnosis and workup of cardiac structures has become possible. The lack of movement of the X-ray source allowed for images at a rate of 20 per second – 100 times. | Cardiac CT Imaging Matthew J. Budoff and Jerold S. Shinbane Editors Associate Editors Stephan Achenbach Paolo Raggi and John A. Rumberger Cardiac CT Imaging Diagnosis of Cardiovascular Disease With 299 Figures including 168 Color Plates 4 Springer Editors Matthew J. Budoff MD FACC FAHA Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Torrance CA USA Jerold S. Shinbane MD FACC Division of Cardiovascular Medicine University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine Los Angeles CA USA Associate Editors Stephan Achenbach MD FESC Department of Internal Medicine II University of Erlangen Erlangen Germany Paolo Raggi MD Department of Cardiology Tulane University School of Medicine New Orleans LA USA John A. Rumberger PhD MD Cardiovascular Disease The Ohio State University Dublin OH USA British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Cardiac CT imaging diagnosis of cardiovascular disease 1. Heart - Tomography 2. Cardiovascular system - Diseases - Diagnosis I. Budoff Matthew J. II. Shinbane Jerold III. Rumberger John A. IV. Raggi Paolo V. Achenbach S. Stephan 2 075722 ISBN-10 1846280281 Library of Congress Control Number 2005928171 ISBN-10 1-84628-028-1 e-ISBN 1-84628-146-6 ISBN-13 978-1-84628-028-3 Printed on acid-free paper Springer-Verlag London Limited 2006 The software disk accompanying this book and all material contained on it is supplied without any warranty of any kind. The publisher accepts no liability for personal injury incurred through use or misuse of the disk. Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study or criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 this publication may only be reproduced stored or transmitted in any form or by any means with the prior permission in writing of the publishers or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms of licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside