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  • CT of Coronary Heart Disease: Part I, CT of Myocardial Infarction, Ischemia, and Viability

    AJR :198, March 2012

    Rozemarijn Vliegenthart Thomas Henzler Antonio Moscariello Balazs Ruzsics Gorka Bastarrika Matthijs Oudkerk U. Joseph Schoepf

    OBJECTIVE. This article reviews the CT-based approaches aimed at the assessment of myocardial infarction, ischemia, and viability described in the recent literature.

    CONCLUSION. Rapid advances in CT technology not only have improved visualiza­tion of coronary arteries but also increasingly enable noncoronary myocardial applications, including analysis of wall motion and the state of the myocardial blood supply. These ad­vancements hold promise for eventually accomplishing the goal of comprehensively evaluat­ing coronary heart disease with a single noninvasive modality.