Cardiac CT Platforms: State of the Art

Shorter scan times and the desire for higher resolution were the driving forces behind the development of spiral scanning in 1990 and the first multi-detector row computed tomography (CT) systems in 1998. With the introduction of ECG-gated scanning on four-slice CT scanners in 1999, the first step toward cardiac imaging with multi-detector row computed tomography (MDCT) had been made.