Current and future clinical potential

Abstract

This chapter is intended to provide the reader with a comprehensive overview of the most recent clinical experience with multi-slice CT and recommendations for its clinical indications. Clinicians from Europe and the United States who are recognized world-wide as experts in their fields share their experience with respect to the currently most relevant clinical applications and indications of multi-slice cardiac CT. Institutions from all around the world have shared their latest case studies to further enhance the value of this chapter. The chapter starts with a review of the clinical usefulness of cardiac and coronary CT imaging, from the viewpoints of radiologists and cardiologists, and discusses the advances from 4- to 64-slice CT technology from a clinical perspective. This review is followed by sections that discuss in-depth the individual clinical findings based on 16-slice CT data and initial clinical experience with the latest 64-slice CT scanners. © 2007 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.