State of the art MSCT evaluation on left ventricular function and comparison with other imaging modalities
YUAN Tao
ZHAO Dawei
QUAN Guanmin
GAO Yunyun
Abstract：Accurate and reproducible assessment of left ventricular function (LVF) is critical for diagnosis, risk assessment, and prognosis evaluation in patients with heart diseases. With the rapid development of the software and equipment, MSCT is becoming one of the most potential noninvasive modalities for cardiovascular examination. MSCT can evaluate coronary artery, cardiac structures and function in one-stop-shop manner. To evaluate the regional LVF, the following steps commonly are included:short axis images of the left ventricular are firstly acquired, and ten phases in the cardiac cycle are reconstructed,then using cardiac analysis software to delineate endo-cardium and epi-cardium, and finally to calculate function parameters. In this review, we summarized state of the art MSCT on LVF evaluation, and compared with cardiography, ultrasound, MR and SPECT.
Keywords：Left ventriculeCardiac functionEvaluationComparisonTomographyX-ray computed
Publication Date：2014-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 532-535,563 )