The radiation effective dose varied across diagnostic modalities, reaching a median 1.2 mSv for cardiac CT for coronary artery calcium scoring (CACS), 2.0 mSv for positron emission tomography, 6.5 mSv ...

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Background: Coronary calcium scoring (CCS) evaluates atherosclerotic burden and cardiovascular risk, correlating with coronary artery disease (CAD) severity. Advances in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (1 ...

Integrating male sex, RBBB, and haemoglobin and glucose levels into the HEART score improves its ability to predict significant coronary artery disease on CCTA in the emergency department setting.

Advanced Photon-Counting Computed Tomography (PCCT) has demonstrated a 100% diagnostic quality and revealed that 74% of ...

Abstract: With the growing global threat of coronary artery disease (CAD), automated CAD diagnosis techniques based on coronary CT angiography (CCTA) have been developed. However, their clinical ...