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CT of the Heart

  • A comprehensive and richly-illustrated guide to cardiac CT
  • Takes a patient-centric approach to cardiac CT
  • Includes coverage of avant-garde technologies enabling enhanced visualization, quantitative imaging, and functional assessment, along with exciting deep learning, and artificial intelligence applications

Part of the book series: Contemporary Medical Imaging (CMI)

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Table of contents (69 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
  2. Where We Were

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. History of Cardiac CT: A Personal Story

      • John A. Rumberger
      Pages 3-10
    3. Evolution of Radiation Dose from Cardiac CT

      • Manoj Mannil, Hatem Alkadhi
      Pages 11-18
    4. The Long March into Clinical Practice: Cardiac CT and Its Competitors

      • Seth Uretsky, Alan Rozanski, Daniel Berman
      Pages 19-33
  3. Where We Are: Human Requisites

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35
    2. Cardiac Computed Tomography: A Team Sport

      • Sheldon E. Litwin
      Pages 37-39
    3. Cardiac CT: Credentialing and Accreditation

      • James M. Kofler, Heidi A. Edmonson, Shuai Leng, Eric E. Williamson
      Pages 41-47
  4. Where We Are: Technical and Operational Requisites

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49
    2. Cardiac CT Platforms: State of the Art

      • Bernhard Schmidt, Katharine Grant, Thomas G. Flohr, Thomas Allmendinger
      Pages 51-67
    3. Principles of Cardiac CT Image Acquisition

      • Thomas Henzler, Patricia Carrascosa, Brian S. Ko, Ronen Rubinshtein
      Pages 69-85
    4. Dual Energy and Spectral CT Techniques in Cardiovascular Imaging

      • B. Krauss, C. H. McCollough
      Pages 87-101
    5. Drugs in Cardiac CT

      • Sebastian Rogowski, Virginia W. Lesslie, Ullrich Ebersberger
      Pages 103-107
    6. Contrast Media Injection Protocols in CT Coronary Angiography

      • Casper Mihl, Madeleine Kok, Joachim E. Wildberger, Marco Das
      Pages 109-115
    7. Cardiovascular CT: Image Reconstruction

      • Annemarie M. den Harder, Arnold M. R. Schilham, Martin J. Willemink
      Pages 117-123
    8. The Challenging Patient

      • Damiano Caruso, Domenico De Santis, Taylor M. Duguay, Sheldon E. Litwin, Carlo N. De Cecco
      Pages 125-130
    9. Cardiac CT: Contemporary Clinical Image Data Display, Analysis, and Quantification

      • Moritz H. Albrecht, Marwen Eid, Pal Spruill Suranyi
      Pages 131-147
    10. Workflow Optimization

      • Thomas Allmendinger, Andrew N. Primak, Christian D. Eusemann
      Pages 149-160
    11. Defining the Role and Benefits of a 3D Laboratory for Cardiovascular CT

      • Laura J. Pierce, Daniel T. Boll, Geoffrey D. Rubin
      Pages 161-172
    12. Structured Reporting for Cardiac CT

      • Anil Attili, Ella A. Kazerooni
      Pages 173-193

About this book

This book is a comprehensive and richly-illustrated guide to cardiac CT, its current state, applications, and future directions. While the first edition of this text focused on what was then a novel instrument looking for application, this edition comes at a time where a wealth of guideline-driven, robust, and beneficial clinical applications have evolved that are enabled by an enormous and ever growing field of technology. Accordingly, the focus of the text has shifted from a technology-centric to a more patient-centric appraisal. While the specifications and capabilities of the CT system itself remain front and center as the basis for diagnostic success, much of the benefit derived from cardiac CT today comes from avant-garde technologies enabling enhanced visualization, quantitative imaging, and functional assessment, along with exciting deep learning, and artificial intelligence applications. Cardiac CT is no longer a mere tool for non-invasive coronary artery stenosis detectionin the chest pain diagnostic algorithms; cardiac CT has proven its value for uses as diverse as personalized cardiovascular risk stratification, prediction, and management, diagnosing lesion-specific ischemia, guiding minimally invasive structural heart disease therapy, and planning cardiovascular surgery, among many others. This second edition is an authoritative guide and reference for both novices and experts in the medical imaging sciences who have an interest in cardiac CT.


Reviews

“This is a well written behemoth of a book, offered at a reasonable price. It … is certainly an excellent reference book that, in my opinion, is a quality go-to guide for individuals and departments alike.” (Ed Nicol, RAD Magazine, November, 2019)

"The entire contents-from the introduction about the past, present, and future of CT of the heart through the technical underpinning of the method, and through various clinical, physiologic, an d pathologic applications of CT in studying the heart-art meticulous and comprehensive. This book fills and immense need"-Foreword by Alexander R. Margulis, MD, DSc., Weill Medical College of Cornell University

"...state-of-the-art text on computed tomography of the heart." - Texas Heart Institute Journal

"This excellent, new, profusely illustrated book demonstrates state-of-the-art imaging of the heart and also provides appropriate comparisons with the results from magentic resonance and ultrasound imaging methofs." - Comprehensive Therapy

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Radiology, Center for Advanced Imaging Research (CAIR), Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, USA

    U. Joseph Schoepf

About the editor

 U. Joseph Schoepf, MD, FACR, FAHA, FNASCI, FSCBT-MR, FSCCT

Director, Division of Cardiovascular Imaging

Medical University of South Carolina

Charleston, SC, USA


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: CT of the Heart

  • Editors: U. Joseph Schoepf

  • Series Title: Contemporary Medical Imaging

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-237-7

  • Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Humana Press 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-60327-236-0Published: 01 April 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-60327-237-7Published: 01 April 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2626-6431

  • Series E-ISSN: 2626-6423

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 931

  • Number of Illustrations: 224 b/w illustrations, 352 illustrations in colour

  • Additional Information: Originally published in the series: Contemporary Cardiology

  • Topics: Imaging / Radiology, Cardiology

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 149.00
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  • Available as PDF
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  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 199.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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