Computed tomography of the heart and cardiovascular system continues to show an impressive and tremendously successful development. Technical improvements translate into new applications and enhanced diagnostic accuracy and the new diagnostic opportunities may potentially be beneficial for many individuals with known or suspected cardiovascular disease. In order to assure that the potential of cardiovascular CT will optimally be used for patient care, a continued, strong joint effort concerning education and training, further research, and advocacy will be necessary. The combined knowledge, experience, and input of all clinicians and researchers in the field will best serve that purpose. Cardiovascular Computed Tomography is the first textbook to cover the heart, cardiovascular, and peripheral vascular systems and will provide the reader with the necessary background information to perform cardiac CT on symptomatic patients and asymptomatic individuals for the accurate assessment of underlying disease

List of Contributors
Introduction
History of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography	p. 1
Physics of and Approaches to Cardiovascular Computed Tomography	p. 17
Radiation Dose in Computed Tomography	p. 27
Clinical Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
Cardiovascular Computed Tomography: A Clinical Perspective	p. 39
Computed Tomographic Anatomy of the Heart	p. 53
Pathology of Coronary Artery Atherosclerosis: Aspects Relevant to Cardiac Imaging	p. 79
Complementary Roles of Computed Tomography and Myocardial Perfusion Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography	p. 89
Coronary Artery Calcium Scanning
Measurement of Coronary Artery Calcium by Computed Tomography	p. 107
Coronary Calcium Scanning for the Prediction of Coronary Stenoses in Symptomatic Patients	p. 119
Coronary Artery Calcification and Prediction of Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events	p. 129
Progression of Coronary Artery Calcium and its Pharmacologic Modification	p. 143
Computed Tomographic Coronary Angiography
How to Perform and Interpret Computed Tomography Cornoary Angiography	p. 155
Computed Tomographic Angiography for the Detection of Coronary Artery Stenoses	p. 163
Computed Tomographic Angiography of Coronary Artery Anomalies	p. 179
Noninvasive Evaluation of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts with Multislice Computed Tomography	p. 193
Assessment of Coronary Artery Stents by Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiography	p. 201
Other Application of Cardiac and Coronary Computed Tomography
Computed Tomography of the Myocardium, Pericardium, and Cardiac Chambers	p. 211
Assessment of Global and Regional Left Ventricular Function by Computed Tomography	p. 229
Assessment of Heart Valve Disease by Computed Tomography	p. 243
Multislice Computed Tomography Evaluation of Congenital Heart Disease	p. 261
Extracardiac Findings on Cardiac Computed Tomographic Imaging	p. 291
Extracardiac Findings on Cardiac Computed Tomographic Imaging	p. 291
Peripheral Computed Tomographic Angiography
Computed Tomographic Angiography: Technical Consideration	p. 297
Computed Tomographic Angiography of the Thoracic Aorta	p. 307
Computed Tomography for Pulmonary Embolism	p. 321
Computed Tomographic Angiography of the Abdominal Aorta and Iliac Arteries	p. 337
Mesenteric and Renal Computed Tomographic Angiography	p. 353
Computed Tomographic Arteriography of the Upper and Lower Extremities	p. 367
Computed Tomographic Angiography of the Cervical Neurovasculature	p. 391
Investigational and Future Uses of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
Cardiovascular Computed Tomography: A Research Perspective	p. 407
Computed Tomographic Coronary Angiography for Subclinical Coronary Artery Disease, Coronary Artery Remodeling, and Plaque Imaging	p. 417
Imaging of Myocardial Viability and Infarction	p. 429
Computed Tomography for the Assessment of Myocardial Perfusion	p. 441
Dual-Energy Computed Tomography	p. 451
Hybrid Imaging Combining Cardiovascular Computed Tomography with Positron Emission Tomography	p. 463
Full-Field Cardiac Imaging using Ultra-High Resolution Flat-Panel Volume-Computed Tomography	p. 473
Micro Computed Tomography	p. 491
Imaging of Plaques and Vasa Vasorum with Micro-computed Tomography: Towards an Understanding of Unstable Plaque	p. 499
Index	p. 509
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