Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring: Toward a New Standard

Conclusions

On state-of-the-art CT systems of 4 different vendors, a 25% reduced dose, thin-slice calcium scoring protocol led to improved intrascanner and interscanner reproducibility and increased detectability of small and low-density calcifications in this phantom. The protocol should be extensively validated before clinical use, but it could potentially improve clinical interscanner/interinstitutional reproducibility and enable more consistent risk assessment and treatment strategies.

Source: Investigative Radiology - December 17, 2021 Category: Radiology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research