Massachusetts General Hospital
64-slice MDCT permits visualization of coronary arteries with minimal motion artifacts
Published in Cardiovascular Device Liability Week, May 7th, 2006
According to recent research from the United States, "We explored quantitative parameters of image quality in consecutive patients undergoing 64-slice multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) coronary angiography for clinical reasons."
M. Ferencik and colleagues at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston wrote, "Forty-two patients (36 men, mean age 61±11 years, mean heart rate 63±10 bpm) underwent contrast-enhanced MDCT coronary angiography with a 64-slice scanner...
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