Doctors are now able to image the heart and coronary arteries with a CT scan, avoiding in some cases the need for an invasive test that involves snaking a catheter through the arteries themselves.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cardiac CT is a growing field of diagnostic imaging. Although most clinicians are familiar with the use of CT ...

A routine heart scan might soon do more than just check for clogged arteries; it could act as a crystal ball for your cardiac ...

Kumamoto University researchers discover that combining two advanced heart imaging techniques can predict life-threatening ...

Cardiac computed tomography (cardiac CT) includes coronary CT angiography (CTA) as well as using CT technology to assess disease of the cardiac valves, aorta and pericardium. This examination requires ...

As technology offers more tools to help diagnose heart disease, you may need to adjust your approach. Here’s the latest on one of those new tools. One of the greatest challenges facing primary-care ...

WASHINGTON, DC—Multiple roles for cardiac CT have become ingrained in the everyday practice of structural interventionalists, but still more are emerging as the field evolves, according to cardiac ...

Background Rapid access chest pain (RACP) clinics are designed to expedite cardiac assessment, but current pathways cause ...

An estimated 47% of thrombi in valvular atrial fibrillation (AF) and 91% of thrombi in nonvalvular AF are localized in the left atrial appendage (LAA) LAA flow stasis (or spontaneous echocardiographic ...

April 11, 2011 (New Orleans, Louisiana) — Coronary calcium can be accurately quantified with a single standard-contrast computed tomography (CT) scan, thereby eliminating the added radiation exposure ...

CT Scan Vs MRI: Which Is Better? “Cardiac CT scan and Cardiac MRI are two advanced imaging tests used to look at the heart, but they work in different ways and are used for different purposes,” shares ...