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Fused CT – Improved image quality of coronary arteries on postmortem CT by summation of repeated scans

2020; Elsevier BV; Volume: 22; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.fri.2020.200386

2666-2264

Tomoya Kobayashi, H Fukuoka, Shogo Suzuki, Seiji Shiotani, Hajime Saitou, Kazuya Tashiro, Satoka Someya, Masahiro Yoshida, Kazunori Kaga, Moyu Yamamori, Katsumi Miyamoto, Hideyuki Hayakawa,

Radiation Dose and Imaging

We report the use of unenhanced postmortem computed tomography (PMCT) to visualize the coronary artery in a 45-year-old man who died suddenly. Cardiac PMCT was performed over the same anatomical region, and the individual scans were fused using software for image data summation (fused CT). Cardiac fused PMCT is an innovative imaging method that can clearly delineate the vascular wall of the coronary artery and hypostasis in the lumen, which is not feasible using routine whole-body CT.