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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on November 11, 2008
European Heart Journal 2008 29(24):2955-2956; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn518
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2008. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Non-invasive CT coronary angiography: can high diagnostic image quality be achieved with less radiation exposure?

Axel Schmermund*, Bernd Nowak and Thomas Voigtländer

Cardioangiologisches Centrum Bethanien, D-60389 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

* Corresponding author. Tel: +49 69 9450 28 0, Fax: +49 69 461613, Email: A.Schmermund@ccb.de

This editorial refers to ‘Accuracy of low-dose computed tomography coronary angiography using prospective electrocardiogram-triggering: first clinical experience’{dagger} by B.A. Herzog et al. on page 3037

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Non-invasive coronary CT angiography (CTA) has come a long way since the first presentation at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions and the ensuing publication by the group from Erlangen, Germany, in 1995.1 Electron beam computed tomography (EBCT) was used for the first years.2 Despite an inferior spatial resolution, EBCT was the only CT machine able to freeze the motion of the beating heart at the time. In contrast to other CT machines, EBCT has no moving mechanical parts. The electron beam, which produces the X-rays by striking the anode, is steered by an electromagnetic deflection system. In the 1990s, these systems achieved an image acquisition time of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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