CT Angiography (CTA)

This channel includes news and new technology innovations for CT systems use a series of X-ray images to create an image volume datasetthatcan slices or manipulated on any plane using advanced visualization software. The section includes computed tomography scanners, CT contrast agents, CT angiography (CTA and CCTA), CT perfusion, spectral CT (dual souce CT), and interative reconstruction dose reduction software. Find more news on cardic CT in the Society of Cariovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) channel page.

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February 1, 2008 - NightHawk Radiology will be a radiology provider for the High-Risk Plaque Initiative (HRP ...

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Feature | Cristen C. Bolan

Just when you got excited about CT angiography (CTA) noninvasively diagnosing coronary artery disease, the Centers for ...

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January 8, 2008 – The cardiac imaging community has until Jan. 12 to contribute to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...

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January 7, 2008 - Imaging for early cardiovascular disease that causes heart attack and stroke is the focus of the High ...

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December 21, 2007 - BG Medicine, on behalf of the HRP Initiative, today announced the launch of the BioImage Study ...

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November 27, 2007 - According to trial findings presented at RSNA, noninvasive CT angiography is as accurate as an ...

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November 13, 2007 – A study by an international team of cardiac imaging specialists, led by researchers at Johns Hopkins ...

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November 7, 2007 - Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. announced the launch of a new study, faCTor64, the Screening For ...

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October 25, 2007 - GE Healthcare displayed its SnapShot Pulse technology designed to maintain high computed tomography ...

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October 15, 2007 - Low-dose coronary CT angiogram (CCTA) could be better for testing asymptomatic patients for ...

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October 10, 2007 - Premier Purchasing Partners, LP, announced new agreements have been awarded for diagnostic imaging ...

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October 3, 2007 - Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s S. Mark Taper Foundation Imaging Center announced that ...

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September 21, 2007 - Catheter angiography may be unnecessary in cases where the CT angiogram (CTA) is indeterminate for ...

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September 19, 2007 - For patients with equivocal or discordant findings on myocardial perfusion imaging, CT angiography ...

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Feature | Peter Fail, M.D.

More than ever before, cardiologists are adopting CT as the new standard for cardiac care. In the last five years ...

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