title: Clinical usefulness of the cardiac multi-detector-row CT.
abstract: Along with improvement of the temporal and special resolution, multi-detector-row CT has become able to generate artifact-less heart images. We discuss the potential benefits of the newly developed cardiac application, demonstrating informative cases.Two- and three-dimensional (2D and 3D) cardiac images were produced throughout one cardiac cycle. By paging 2D and 3D images in cardiac cycle order, animated movies were generated. Cardiac imaging with multi-detector-row CT, acquired during a single breath hold, provides information about: (1) clear morphology of heart chambers and myocardium, (2) wall motion and systolic thickening, (3) myocardial perfusion, (4) volume assessment, and (5) coronary anatomy and pathophysiology.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Ehime University School of Medicine, Shitsukawa, Shigenobu-cho, Onsen-gun, Ehime 791-0295, Japan. tmochi@m.ehime-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Teruhito
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mochizuki
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Higashino
authors.forename: Yasushi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Koyama
authors.forename: Satosi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hosoi
authors.forename: Takaharu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tsuda
authors.forename: Yoshifumi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sugawara
authors.forename: Masao
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Miyagawa
authors.forename: Junpei
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ikezoe
authors.forename: Yun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shen
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*