Orientation and approach to cardiovascular images

Abstract

Mastery of conventional anatomy and physiology is essential as a template for understanding of cardiovascular variation and pathology. A multitude of analysis and reconstruction tools including orthogonal, double oblique, and curved multiplanar reformatted 2-D, and volumerendered 3-D views can be utilized for comprehensive diagnosis of cardiovascular pathology. The goal of this chapter is orientation to review and analysis of cardiovascular structure from CCTA image sets using a systematic approach.