Atherosclerotic Plaque Characterization by 0.5-mm-Slice Multislice Computed Tomographic Imaging Comparison With Intravascular Ultrasound

Detection of Relevant Coronary Artery Disease Using Dual-Source Computed Tomography in a High Probability Patient Series Comparison With Invasive Angiography

“…24 Additionally, recently published studies underline the feasibility of coronary CTA to even detect coronary plaque and therefore clinically silent CAD. [25][26][27] A certain prognostic impact on the detection of coronary calcification and non-obstructive CAD is therefore assumed. [28][29][30] However, in clinical practice 2 major limitations are apparent: Firstly, coronary calcifications lead to overestimation of coronary stenoses because of blurring artefacts and total obstruction of the coronary lumen, and may significantly impair diagnostic accuracy 31,32 and thus lead to unnecessary invasive angiography.…”

Coronary Plaque Stabilization Followed by Color Code PlaqueTM Analysis With 64-Slice Multidetector Row Computed Tomography

“…9 However, it is impossible for CT or IVUS to evaluate the latter, whereas MDCT can precisely detect the lipid pool and measure the CT values of the plaque. [3][4][5][6] On gray-scale MDCT images, the measurement of plaque CT values surrounded by a region of interest is commonly performed for evaluation of plaque morphology. Komatsu et al reported a method of evaluating plaque morphology with 8-slice MDCT, called 'Plaque map', which measures the CT numbers of the included plaque for each pixel at each cross-sectional vessel and codes them using 14 color ranges.…”

Simultaneous Assessment Beyond Coronary Stenosis by Multislice Computed Tomography

“…They reported that IVUS-based soft plaques showed a mean density of 1426 HU, intermediated plaques of 9121 HU, and calcified plaques of 419194 HU. Similarly, Motoyama et al showed that the corresponding values were 1112 HU, 7821 HU, and 516198 HU (Motoyama et al, 2007). Regarding arterial remodeling determined by MSCT, on the other hand, Achenbach et al reported that cross-sectional vessel areas and remodeling indices measured by 16-slice CT scanner correlated closely to IVUS (r = 0.88 and r = 0.91, respectively) (Achenbach et al, 2004).…”