Dr Klaus Kofoed: Coronary subtraction on 2nd generation 320 row detector CT

In recent years Coronary CT Angiography (CCTA) has been established as a method to evaluate suspected coronary artery disease. The method is suitable to exclude coronary atherosclerosis, but has shown poorer diagnostic accuracy in the presence of calcification in the coronary vessel wall in addition to the presence of high density structures such as coronary artery stents. This may cause false positive results and thus more unnecessary downstream diagnostic testing.

Recently a new method has been developed in order to reduce this problem -- the coronary artery subtraction algorithm for CCTA. The principle of this new technique will be reviewed and our initial clinical experience in addition to preliminary research results will be presented.

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