Multislice CT scanners show promise for the noninvasive detection of coronary stenosis. Rapid improvements in technology mean that newer-generation spiral CT scanners are capable of higher spatial and ...

CTAHN leads to acute management changes in a minority of patients, with the highest diagnostic yield found in stroke and headache cases.

Even in challenging cases, CT angiography offers an accurate and rapid diagnosis for blunt trauma victims who may have aortic or great vessel injury negating the need for more invasive procedures, ...

New UK recommendations for the assessment of chest pain are prioritizing the use of CT angiography in cases where a diagnosis of stable angina cannot be excluded on the basis of a clinical assessment ...

MUNICH, Germany—A noninvasive strategy that integrates computed tomography (CT) angiography with CT myocardial perfusion imaging shows strong diagnostic accuracy in identifying patients who have ...

ORLANDO, FL — For certain elderly patients with severe aortic-valve stenosis who have CT angiography as part of a workup before transcatheter aortic-valve replacement (TAVR), the CT scan can also ...

Cardiac computed tomography (cardiac CT) includes coronary CT angiography (CTA) as well as using CT technology to assess disease of the cardiac valves, aorta and pericardium. This examination requires ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Stress tests are a thing of the past. Make way for coronary CT angiography. Wide-eyed medical students might ...

ORLANDO, FL — Although coronary CT angiography to assess the left atrium and pulmonary veins prior to ablation for atrial fibrillation (AF) is commonly considered not to be as good as a coronary ...

Siemens Healthineers has developed nexaris Therapy Suite to better integrate multi-modal imaging in surgery and interventional radiology. They provide support for precise diagnostics, intraoperative ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — As more and more Americans undergo CT scans and other medical imaging scans involving intense X-rays, a new study suggests that many of them should take a pre-scan drug that could ...