Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School Medicine, 600 N Wolfe St, Carnegie Bldg 565C, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2011 Oct;197(4):829-37. doi: 10.2214/AJR.10.5689.
Coronary MDCT angiography has been shown to be an accurate noninvasive tool for the diagnosis of obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD). Its sensitivity and negative predictive value for diagnosing percentage of stenosis are unsurpassed compared with those of other noninvasive testing methods. However, in its current form, it provides no information regarding the physiologic impact of CAD and is a poor predictor of myocardial ischemia. CORE320 is a multicenter multinational diagnostic study with the primary objective to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of 320-MDCT for detecting coronary artery luminal stenosis and corresponding myocardial perfusion deficits in patients with suspected CAD compared with the reference standard of conventional coronary angiography and SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging.
We aim to describe the CT acquisition, reconstruction, and analysis methods of the CORE320 study.
冠状动脉 MDCT 血管造影术已被证明是一种用于诊断阻塞性冠状动脉疾病(CAD)的准确的非侵入性工具。与其他非侵入性检查方法相比,其在诊断狭窄程度百分比方面的敏感性和阴性预测值是无与伦比的。然而,在其当前形式下,它没有提供关于 CAD 的生理影响的信息,并且是心肌缺血的不良预测因子。CORE320 是一项多中心、多国的诊断研究,其主要目的是评估 320-MDCT 在检测疑似 CAD 患者的冠状动脉管腔狭窄和相应心肌灌注缺陷方面的诊断准确性,与常规冠状动脉造影和 SPECT 心肌灌注成像的参考标准进行比较。
我们旨在描述 CORE320 研究的 CT 采集、重建和分析方法。