title: A multifunctional CT technology: Reality or illusion for patient risk assessment?
abstract: A high-speed, multi-slice coronary computed tomography (CT) imaging has emerged as a promising or clinically available multifunctional technique for the assessment of myocardial ischemia, viability, ischemia-induced cardiac dysfunction, and coronary atherosclerotic alterations in patients with suspected or known coronary artery disease. Despite several technical issues remain to be resolved, cardiac CT imaging will have a reality as a multifunctional modality for guiding physicians in better decision-making for favorable clinical outcomes in patients with suspected coronary artery disease, provided that this imaging technology can contribute to characterization and localization of high-risk coronary atherosclerosis in combination with the quantitative evaluation of functional myocardial ischemia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Hakodate Goryoukaku Hospital, Hakodate, 040-8611, Japan. tnakata@sapmed.ac.jp.|Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, 060-8543, Japan. tnakata@sapmed.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Tomoaki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakata
mesh_terms: D017023:Coronary Angiography / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D055414:Myocardial Perfusion Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D018570:Risk Assessment; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*
keywords: Myocardial ischemia; cardiac CT; coronary artery disease; stree myocardial perfusion imaging