title: [Fast computer tomography for investigation of the heart--"computer cardiotomography". Methods and early results (author's transl)].
abstract: The early results in the investigation of normal and pathological hearts using fast computer tomography are presented. By means of tomographic sections of cadaver hearts, it has been shown that it is possible to distinguish the ventricular cavities and individual cardiac walls by this non-invasive method. Changes in volume of the ventricles and atria due to various forms of stress are easily distinguishable. Myocardial scars can be distinguished from other circumscribed myocardial defects. The particular advantages of this method, which is non-invasive, painless and easily repeatable, do not need to be stressed. The technique adds a significant dimension to previously available non-invasive diagnostic methods, such as ultrasound echo-cardiography.
mesh_terms: D001021:Aortic Valve; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003287:Contrast Media; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006321:Heart / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008946:Mitral Valve Stenosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media
vernacular_title: Das Herz im "schnellen" Computertomogramm "Computer-Kardio-Tomographie" (CKT) Methodik und erste Ergebnisse.