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New heart disease study results from St. Vincent's University described

Published in Cardiovascular Device Liability Week, June 15th, 2008

"Recent studies have established that cardiac MDCT generates high-quality images of the cardiac valves. Images are acquired during a single breath-hold ( inspiration) after the injection of iodinated contrast material (5mL/s) followed by a saline bolus chaser," researchers in Dublin, Ireland report.

"Incremental data sets are then reconstructed throughout the R-R interval, and after transfer to a workstation, specialized software combines data sets sequentially to generate cine loops of the heart throughout the cardiac cycle. The purpose of this article is to describe the cardiac MDCT techniques allowing optimal cardiac valve depiction and to illustrate the MDCT...

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