title: A pictorial review of coronary artery bypass grafts at multidetector row CT.
abstract: Multidetector row CT scanners with submillimeter spatial resolution and high temporal resolution are now available and are increasingly used for noninvasive assessment of vascular disease including coronary arteries and grafts. The entire heart and graft course can be scanned within a single breath-hold, and contrast-enhanced images are reconstructed through retrospective ECG gating. In this pictorial review, we describe the CT findings of the most commonly used coronary artery bypass grafts on both axial images and two-dimensional and three-dimensional images providing a correlation with conventional coronary angiography.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Sciences and Bioimaging, Institute of Radiology, University G. d'Annunzio, Osp. SS. Annunziata, Via dei Vestini, 66100 Chieti, Italy. r.marano@rad.unich.it
authors.forename: Riccardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Marano
authors.forename: Maria Luigia
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Storto
authors.forename: Biagio
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Merlino
authors.forename: Nicola
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Maddestra
authors.forename: Gabriele
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Di Giammarco
authors.forename: Lorenzo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bonomo
mesh_terms: D017023:Coronary Angiography / Q000379:methods; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed