06/01/2007

Cardiac MSCT with SURE Plaque - Initial experience and future perspectives

Ongoing refinement of modern spiral multi-slice CT scanners offers the opportunity for very high temporal and spatial resolution thin-slice data set acquisition. The econstruction techniques offered (multisegment reconstruction) result in improved temporal resolution while simultaneously reducing the effective exposure time to 40-200 ms and thus also reducing motion artefacts. The SURECardio software allows for optimum studies customized to each patient due to (semi-) automatic preselection of the study parameters as a function of the patient's ECG heart rate.

Figures 1a and 1b:
User interface for vessel
tracking with visualization of the
vascular lumen for centered
tracking and view of the curved
MPR generated. In addition
visualization of the rotational
cMPR. Documentation of the
vascular segment processed
(for the case study: RCA).

This article was first published in the VISIONS, issue 10/2006, a publication of Toshiba Medical Systems

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