Role of cardiac CT in ischemic heart disease. History and Basics

With the development of CT, beating heart and coronary artery have become targets of modern CT. In ischemic heart disease, assessment of patient’s coronary artery is the first step for diagnosis and therapy.  Recent multi-slice CT systems (MSCT) have become able to offer non-(least-) invasive method, i.e., coronary CT angiography, which offers details of the coronary artery, coronary stenosis and plaque, which may cause ischemic heart disease.  Because heart is beating (moving), and coronary artery is a small target for CT, clinicians such as radiologists and cardiologists, and radiological technologists need to know ability and limitation of CT system to image beating heart and coronary arteries.

However, cardiac radiology using CT is a new filed of radiology, most of the radiologists and cardiologists as well as residents are not familiar with this field. Students are likely not to have a chance to learn cardiac radiology, because of the lack of the specialists of the new field. Thus, the main goal of the module is to provide opportunity to learn how the MSCT address clinical needs in the patient care of the ischemic heart disease. History of cardiac CT and basics are described in the e-learning.

The new learning module was created by Professor Teruhito Mochizuki, Department of Radiology, Medical Faculty, Sechenov University, Moscow, Russia. Professor and Chairman, Department of Radiology, Ehime University graduate School of Medicine, Ehime, Japan.

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