title: Evaluation of electron beam tomographic coronary arteriography with three-dimensional reconstruction in healthy subjects.
abstract: In this study, the authors evaluated the performance characteristics of contrast-enhanced electron-beam tomography (EBT) with three-dimensional reconstruction in defining the coronary artery lumen in healthy subjects. Thirty patients with normal coronary angiograms by selective coronary arteriography (SCA) underwent contrast-enhanced EBT examination. Measured parameters included degree of luminal enhancement, intravascular contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR), and diameter and length of visualized lumen. Ventricular cavity, aortic blood pool, and coronary artery attenuation were found to be significantly different before and after intravenous injection of contrast material (p < 0.001). CNR decreased from proximal to distal segments within each vessel (p < 0.001), with a peak of 11.2 +/- 2.3 occurring in the proximal left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) to a low of 4.8 +/- 2.0 in the distal left circumflex (LCX). Luminal diameters visualized by EBT had no significant difference with that of SCA (p > 0.05). Therefore, EBT angiography with three-dimensional reconstruction allows for noninvasive coronary arteriography revealing long segments of the major coronary arteries in normal subjects.
authors: Department of Radiology, FuWai Cardiovascular Institute and Hospital, Peking Union Medical College, and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing.
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authors: Lu
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authors: R
authors: Dai
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authors: Bai
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authors: S
authors: He
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authors: Jing
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authors: Zhuang
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authors: Gao
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authors: Yang
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authors: Chen
authors: M J
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authors: Budoff
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed