Overview image of the lumen and vessel wall in coronary CT angiography - The plaque-loaded angiographic view

Masahiro Jinzaki; Minoru Yamada; Kozo Sato; Yutaka Tanami; Toshihisa Anzai; Kosuke Sasaki; Sachio Kuribayashi

doi:10.1253/circj.72.671

Overview image of the lumen and vessel wall in coronary CT angiography - The plaque-loaded angiographic view

Masahiro Jinzaki, Minoru Yamada, Kozo Sato, Yutaka Tanami, Toshihisa Anzai, Kosuke Sasaki, Sachio Kuribayashi

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Abstract

Background: There is no post-processing technique that can display an overview image of the lumen and vessel wall of a whole heart in one image. A merging coronary lumen view (Angiographic View) with a plaque image can provide a single, comprehensive image of plaque distribution. Methods and Results: A color-coded plaque image is assigned to different computed tomography attenuation ranges in the coronary artery to visualize plaques. This plaque image is re-formatted into a maximum intensity projection image and loaded onto the Angiographic View image. Conclusions: The integrated image of the coronary lumen and vessel wall of a whole heart is feasible. This image (Plaque-loaded Angiographic View) will give effective information in explaining the distribution of coronary lesions in patients as well as providing opportunities to discuss treatment strategies.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	671-673
Number of pages	3
Journal	Circulation Journal
Volume	72
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1253/circj.72.671
Publication status	Published - 2008 May 20

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Keywords

Cardiac CT
Computed tomography
Coronary artery disease
MDCT
Post-processing

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Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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Jinzaki, M., Yamada, M., Sato, K., Tanami, Y., Anzai, T., Sasaki, K., & Kuribayashi, S. (2008). Overview image of the lumen and vessel wall in coronary CT angiography - The plaque-loaded angiographic view. Circulation Journal, 72(4), 671-673. https://doi.org/10.1253/circj.72.671

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