European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on December 21, 2007
European Heart Journal 2008 29(2):153-154; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm614
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Back to the future: coronary CT angiography using prospective ECG triggering
Imaging Institute and Heart and Vascular Institute, The Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland OH 44195, USA
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This editorial refers to Feasibility of low dose coronary CT angiography: first experience with prospective ECG gating by L. Husmann et al., on page 191
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doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm613
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Medical imaging with computed tomography (CT) has evolved rapidly during the past few decades, now allowing routine non-invasive coronary angiography1 and also guidance of innovative endovascular procedures of the aorta, and recently the aortic valve.2–4
Initial CT systems, introduced in the 1970s for body imaging, rotated the X-ray tube and detector system (gantry) very slowly around the patient, spanning several heartbeats per rotation.5 After acquisition of a single axial slice, the tube was turned off, and the patient table incremented
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