Ritman Erik L
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Mayo Medical School, Alfred Bldg., 2-409, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
Cardiol Clin. 2003 Nov;21(4):491-513, vii. doi: 10.1016/s0733-8651(03)00092-4.
Cardiac computed tomography (CT) is a special subset of CT, a subject about which much has been written in terms of the underlying concepts and mathematics and the sociologic impact. Cardiac CT has passed through three, chronologically overlapping, developmental stages and is now in its fourth stage of development. The first stage was fluoroscopy-based CT (1972-1995) stimulated by physiologic research needs, and the next was clinical CT-based exploration (1975-1980) of the potential of clinical CT in cardiology. This was followed by the electron beam CT-based stage (1980-present), which was the first CT approach applicable to clinical cardiology. Finally, volume-scanning CT imaging methods achieved with multislice scanning approaches of helical CT and by flat panel-based CT (1990-present), show great promise for clinically applicable CT of the cardiovascular system.
心脏计算机断层扫描（CT）是CT的一个特殊分支，关于其基础概念、数学原理以及社会影响，已有诸多著述。心脏CT已历经三个在时间上相互重叠的发展阶段，目前正处于其第四个发展阶段。第一阶段是基于荧光透视的CT（1972年至1995年），由生理研究需求所推动，接下来是基于临床CT的心脏学潜力探索阶段（1975年至1980年）。随后是基于电子束CT的阶段（1980年至今），这是首个应用于临床心脏学的CT方法。最后，通过螺旋CT的多层扫描方法和平板探测器CT实现的容积扫描CT成像方法（1990年至今），在心血管系统临床适用CT方面展现出巨大潜力。
