Computed Tomography of the Cardiovascular System

Section I:Introduction 1. History of Computed Tomography 2. Physics of and Approaches to Cardiovascular Computed Tomography3. Radiation Dose in Computed TomographySection II: Clinical Cardiovascular Computed Tomography4. Cardiovascular Computed Tomography: A Clinical Perspective 5. Computed Tomographic Anatomy of the Heart 6. Pathology of Coronary Artery Atherosclerosis: Aspects Relevant to Cardiac Imaging 7. Complementary Roles of Computed Tomographyand Myocardial Perfusion Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) Section III: Coronary Artery Calcium Scanning8. Measurement of Coronary Artery Calcium by Computed Tomography9. Coronary Calcium Scanning for the Prediction of Coronary Stenoses in Symptomatic Patients 10. CoronaryArtery Calcification and Prediction of Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events 11. Progression of Coronary Artery Calcium and its Pharmacologic Modification Section IV: Computed Tomographic Coronary Angiography 12. HowTo Performand Interpret Computed TomographicCoronary Angiography 13. Computed Tomographic Angiography for the Detection of Coronary Artery Stenoses 14. Computed Tomographic Coronary Angiography of Coronary Artery Anomalies 15.Non-invasive Evaluation of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts with Multislice Computed Tomography 16. Assessment of Coronary Artery Stents by Coronary Computed TomographicAngiography Section V: Other Applications of Cardiac and Coronary Computed Tomography 17. Computed Tomography of theMyocardium, Pericardium andCardiac Chambers 18. Assessment of Global and Regional Left Ventricular Function by Computed Tomography 19. Assessment of Heart Valve Disease by Computed Tomography 20. Multislice Comp