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Use of 100 kV versus 120 kV in cardiac dual source computed tomography: effect on radiation dose and image qualityRon Blankstein
Cardiac MR PET CT Program, Department of Radiology, Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Int J Cardiovasc Imaging 27:579-86. 2011..02). In selected non-obese patients, use of low kV results in a substantial reduction of radiation dose and may result in improved image quality. These results suggest that low kV should be used more frequently in non-obese patients...- Radiation dose and image quality of prospective triggering with dual-source cardiac computed tomographyRon Blankstein
Department of Radiology and Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Am J Cardiol 103:1168-73. 2009..Future advances in cardiac CT may further improve this technique, thus allowing for wider use... - Perceived usefulness of cardiac computed tomography as assessed by referring physicians and its effect on patient managementRon Blankstein
Cardiac MR PET CT Program, Department of Radiology and Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Cardiol 105:1246-53. 2010..In conclusion, of 53 different referring clinicians from different medical specialties, CTA was considered to almost always be useful; however, the effect on subsequent medical management was more variable... - Adenosine-induced stress myocardial perfusion imaging using dual-source cardiac computed tomographyRon Blankstein
Cardiac MR PET CT Program, Department of Radiology and Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
J Am Coll Cardiol 54:1072-84. 2009.... - Incremental value of myocardial perfusion over regional left ventricular function and coronary stenosis by cardiac CT for the detection of acute coronary syndromes in high-risk patients: a subgroup analysis of the ROMICAT trialHiram G Bezerra
Cardiac MR PET CT Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr 5:382-91. 2011..To determine the incremental benefit of assessing myocardial perfusion defects (MPD) for acute coronary syndromes (ACS) over coronary and functional assessment by rest cardiac computed tomography (CT) in patients with acute chest pain... - The effect of heart rhythm on patient radiation dose with dual-source cardiac computed tomographyTust Techasith
Cardiac MR PET CT Program, Department of Radiology and Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr 5:255-63. 2011..To lower the radiation exposure associated with cardiac CT, it is essential to identify all factors that influence radiation dose... - Incremental value of adenosine-induced stress myocardial perfusion imaging with dual-source CT at cardiac CT angiographyJose A Rocha-Filho
Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass, USA
Radiology 254:410-9. 2010.... - Direct comparison of rest and adenosine stress myocardial perfusion CT with rest and stress SPECTDavid R Okada
Cardiac MR PET CT Program, Department of Radiology and Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
J Nucl Cardiol 17:27-37. 2010..The aim of this study was to determine the level of agreement between CTP and SPECT-MPI at rest and under stress on a per-segment, per-vessel, and per-patient basis... - Usefulness of age and gender in the early triage of patients with acute chest pain having cardiac computed tomographic angiographyFabian Bamberg
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Am J Cardiol 104:1165-70. 2009..Thus, age and gender might serve as simple criteria to appropriately select patients who would derive the greatest diagnostic benefit from coronary CTA in the setting of acute chest pain... - A comparison of reconstruction and viewing parameters on image quality and accuracy of stress myocardial CT perfusionBrian B Ghoshhajra
Cardiac MR PET CT Program, Department of Radiology and Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr 5:459-66. 2011..However, the optimal diagnostic viewing and image processing parameters for CTP are unknown... - Comparison of postprocessing techniques for the detection of perfusion defects by cardiac computed tomography in patients presenting with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarctionIan S Rogers
Department of Radiology and Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114 2750, USA
J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr 4:258-66. 2010..Despite rapid advances in cardiac computed tomography (CT), a strategy for optimal visualization of perfusion abnormalities on CT has yet to be validated... - Stress myocardial perfusion imaging by CMR provides strong prognostic value to cardiac events regardless of patient's sexOtavio R Coelho-Filho
Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
JACC Cardiovasc Imaging 4:850-61. 2011..The major aim of this study is to test the hypothesis that stress cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging can provide robust prognostic value in women presenting with suspected ischemia, to the same extent as in men... - Appropriateness and utilization of cardiac CT: implications for development of future criteriaMeagan K Murphy
Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit St, GRB 740, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Nucl Cardiol 17:881-9. 2010..The cardiac CT (CCT) appropriateness criteria (AC) were jointly published by multiple societies to ensure effective utilization of CCT. We sought to determine how these criteria apply to CCT scans performed at a tertiary-care hospital... - Usefulness of electrocardiographic parameters as compared with computed tomography measures of left atrial volume enlargement: from the ROMICAT trialQuynh A Truong
Cardiac MR PET CT Program, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
J Electrocardiol 44:257-64. 2011..We aimed to determine the diagnostic performance of 6 ECG criteria for LAE as compared with CT left atrial volume (LAV) and index to body surface area (LAVI) as the reference standard... - Infarct detection with a comprehensive cardiac CT protocolBrian B Ghoshhajra
Cardiac MR PET CT Program, Department of Radiology and Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 165 Cambridge Street, Suite 400, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr 6:14-23. 2012..However, the diagnostic accuracy of these techniques for the detection of myocardial infarction (MI) is unknown... - Diagnostic and prognostic value of absence of coronary artery calcificationAmmar Sarwar
Cardiac PET CT MRI Program, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
JACC Cardiovasc Imaging 2:675-88. 2009..In this study, we systematically assessed the diagnostic and prognostic value of absence of coronary artery calcification (CAC) in asymptomatic and symptomatic individuals... - Performance of electrocardiographic criteria for left ventricular hypertrophy as compared with cardiac computed tomography: from the Rule Out Myocardial Infarction Using Computer Assisted Tomography trialQuynh A Truong
Cardiac MR PET CT Program, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
J Hypertens 28:1959-67. 2010..We aimed to examine seven ECG-based LVH criteria against two CT indexation criteria for LVH: a CT-specific body surface area cutoff and the obesity-independent height criteria... - Comparison of cardiac computed tomography examination appropriateness under the 2010 revised versus the 2006 original Appropriate Use CriteriaMeagan M Wasfy
Cardiovascular Medicine Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 75 Francis Street, PB 147, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr 6:99-107. 2012..In addition to rating an expanded number of indications, the new criteria adjusted the appropriateness of existing indications to reflect changes in clinical practice and new evidence since 2006... - Practical tips and tricks in cardiovascular computed tomography: diagnosis of myocardial infarctionRon Blankstein
Cardiac MR PET CT Program, Department of Radiology and Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr 3:104-11. 2009..This article provides a brief overview on the use of CT to diagnose myocardial infarction (MI) and provide practical "tips and tricks" that can aid in the CT-based detection of MI... - Predictors of coronary heart disease events among asymptomatic persons with low low-density lipoprotein cholesterol MESA (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis)Ron Blankstein
Non invasive Cardiovascular Imaging Program, Department of Medicine Cardiovascular Division and Radiology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Am Coll Cardiol 58:364-74. 2011..Our aim was to identify risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD) events among asymptomatic persons with low (? 130 mg/dl) low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C)... - Comparison of dual-source 64-slice adenosine stress CT perfusion with stress-gated SPECT-MPI for evaluation of left ventricular function and volumesShanmugam Uthamalingam
Cardiac MRI PET CT Program, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School 165 Cambridge Street, Suite 400, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr 6:24-30. 2012.... - Integration of coronary anatomy and myocardial perfusion imagingRon Blankstein
Noninvasive Cardiovascular Imaging Program, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Nat Rev Cardiol 7:226-36. 2010..Approaches to integration of these imaging modalities are described, followed by an exploration of the clinical utility and future directions of hybrid imaging... - Relation of left ventricular mass and concentric remodeling to extent of coronary artery disease by computed tomography in patients without left ventricular hypertrophy: ROMICAT studyQuynh A Truong
Cardiac MR PET CT Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
J Hypertens 27:2472-82. 2009..We aimed to determine whether LVM, LVM index (LVMi), and the left ventricular geometric pattern of concentric remodeling are associated with the extent of CAD in patients without left ventricular hypertrophy... - Quantitative relationship between the extent and morphology of coronary atherosclerotic plaque and downstream myocardial perfusionMasanao Naya
Noninvasive Cardiovascular Imaging Program, Department of Medicine Cardiology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Am Coll Cardiol 58:1807-16. 2011..The purpose of this study was to quantify the effects of coronary atherosclerosis morphology and extent on myocardial flow reserve (MFR)... - Predictors of hypertension control in a diverse general cardiology practiceAdam D DeVore
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich) 12:570-7. 2010..In addition, 2 novel predictors of HTN control, recognition of systolic blood pressure goal and knowledge of HTN control, were identified that can be utilized in creating new HTN treatment interventions... - Changes in kidney function following heart failure treatment: focus on renin-angiotensin system blockadeRon Blankstein
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Heart Fail Clin 4:425-38. 2008..Against this background, a few of the common clinical dilemmas that clinicians often encounter when treating patients with agents that block the RAS system are discussed...