What is the future of Cardiac CT?

Kurzfassung: Three aspects on the future of cardiac CT will be presented. 1. New technology The latest developments of CT Myocardial Perfusion Imaging, Transluminal Attenuation Gradient (TAG) and Corrected Coronary Opacification (CCO), fractional flow reserve (FFR) computed from CTA, extrapolation from atherosclerotic plaque characteristics, and three-dimensional printing will be briefly summarized. 2. More clinical trails More recruiting trials, i.e., CONSERVE (NCT01810198), DECIDE-Gold (NCT02178904), CREDENCE (NCT02173275), ISCHEMIA (NCT01471522), will be stressed in this section, rather than the published PRO…