Appropriately performed and interpreted, cardiac CT has distinct advantages as a diagnostic tool over other imaging modalities: it is less invasive, and involves shorter recovery times. However, with cardiac CT, reporting pitfalls can be present – a significant stenosis can be missed, or a mild stenosis overcalled. Artifacts can be misinterpreted.

It is therefore crucial that CT studies be accurately interpreted, particularly as the high negative predictive value of CT
scans makes the procedure’s clinical application so
potentially useful.

Overcome and avoid pitfalls in the interpretation of cardiac CT with the practical guidelines and clinical perspectives presented in this concise, convenient, and affordable DVD!

Here’s what you’ll learn:

• Evaluation of common and uncommon motion artifacts
• Motion artifacts management using beta-blockers
• Causes of variations in heart rate during scan
• Controlling blurring and step-ladder artifacts
• Benefits of reducing area of coverage
• Limiting motion artifacts through patient management
• Coronary calcification and Beam hardening artifacts
• Characteristics of the “blooming” effect
• Overcalling stenosis and calcification
• How to decrease blooming with changes in windowing
• Assessment of CTA use in high calcium scores
• Cardiac catheterizations: making the call
• The importance of optimal contrast timing bolus
• Stent evaluation using different reconstruction filters
• Considerations regarding patients with pacemakers
• Avoiding streak artifacts
• Axial image importance in multiplanar reformation
• The dangers of reliance on volume rendering
• Guidelines for stenosis grading and more

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