To evaluate diagnostic image quality of high-pitch dual source comprehensive cardiothoracic CT protocol in patients presenting with acute undifferentiated chest pain. Read more

Coronary CTA using 100 kV tube potential and the FLASH spiral acquisition mode allowed ruling out coronary artery disease in this normal-sized adult patient with a DLP of 49 in only 0.29 s scan time without the use of beta blockers. Read more

In this case, Dual Energy coronary CTA was used to image a complication of interventional recanalization, i.e. acute in-stent thrombosis, while the initial clinical diagnosis of acute aortic dissection could reliably be ruled out. Read more

The high-pitch dual spiral technique requires only about onefifth of the dose of conventional ECG gated triple-rule-out protocols, thus matching that of a standard nongated chest scan. Read more

Vesela Stoynova, Sofia, Bulgaria has sent the following question: Cardiac CT: Hi EXPERTS, We do a lot of cardio CT with 16 slice GE. We are on the way to by a new CT. I have read all advertisement about DSCT. I would like to hear your oppinion on  ustabile heart rate, extrasystole … Read more

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Case history Five years following quadruple CABG surgery, this 64-year-old patient started experiencing atypical chest pain. Question Are any of the bypass grafts or anastomoses stenotic or occluded? Is there an extra-cardiac cause behind the patient‘s symptoms? Diagnosis/Differential diagnosis Acute graft thrombosis, myocardial infarction, myocardial ischemia due to graft stenosis, aortic dissection, pulmonary embolism, pericarditis, … Read more