title: Assessment of coronary arteries with CT.
abstract: This article is designed to provide the reader information about the technical details of retrospective ECG-gated spiral 4SCT and its applications for the detection and quantification of coronary artery calcification, the detection of coronary artery stenoses, and the characterization of coronary atherosclerotic plaques.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Radiology, Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich, Klinikum Grosshadern, Germany. christoph.becker@ikra.med.uni-muenchen.de
authors.forename: Christoph R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Becker
mesh_terms: D017023:Coronary Angiography / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000379:methods; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed