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Overview Image of the Lumen and Vessel Wall in Coronary CT Angiography The Plaque-Loaded Angiographic View

2007; Japanese Circulation Society; Volume: 72; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1253/circj.72.671

1347-4820

Masahiro Jinzaki, Minoru Yamada, Kôzô Satô, Yutaka Tanami, Toshihisa Anzai, Kosuke Sasaki, Sachio Kuribayashi,

Acute Myocardial Infarction Research

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.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.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.