title: Neonatal cardiac multidetector row CT: why and how we do it.
abstract: Neonatal congenital heart disease is a most difficult area of diagnostic radiology because of the small patient body size and fast resting heart rate. Recently, the spatial and temporal resolution of multidetector-row CT (MDCT) has evolved so that neonatal congenital heart disease can be precisely diagnosed. We describe the role of MDCT in neonatal congenital heart disease and offer tips for the scanning procedure to familiarize radiologists with this developing field.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, No. 160, Sec. 3, Taichung Harbor Road, Taichung 407, Republic of China (Taiwan). sillyduck.radiology@gmail.com
authors.forename: I-Chen
authors.initials: IC
authors.lastname: Tsai
authors.forename: Min-Chi
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Sheng-Ling
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Jan
authors.forename: Chung-Chi
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yun-Ching
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Fu
authors.forename: Pao-Chun
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Tain
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D016292:Procedural Sedation; D003287:Contrast Media; D004452:Echocardiography; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D003287:Contrast Media