Cardiac CT angiography is making its mark of diagnosis — as well as impacting the course of interventional procedures.

Remarkable advances in multidetector CT angiography (CTA) not onlyhave produced great excitement among both radiology and cardiologyspecialty groups but also have raised issues of responsibility forinterpretation of the resulting images.

Healthcare facilities often turn to a 64-slice scanner with oneprimary objective for the state-of-the-art system: to open the door tonon-invasive coronary artery imaging.

With better resolution than MR and CT, echocardiography is poised to take the lead in screening and diagnosing heart disease.

Although academic medical centers and large hospitals were the earlyadopters of 64-slice CT solutions, community hospitals are entering the64-slice world in quickly increasing numbers.

Siemens Medical Solutions is introducing the AXIOM Artis dBA Twin, animaging system designed for universal angiography and the highlyspecialized field of neuroradiology, at next week’s RSNA in Chicago.

GE Healthcare pulled out all the stops in Chicago this week at theAmerican Heart Association (AHA) in Chicago by showcasing the fullbreadth of its latest developments in cardiology imaging, clinical ITsystems, and other developments.

Cardiologists need to review images from a variety of imaging modalities on a single workstation, and to this end solutions vary from institution to institution. Learn how three facilities address these challenges.