Cardiac CT: From Diagnosis to Clinical Management

This manual on Cardiac CT has been conceived to provide a practical, clinically oriented guide that bridges technical foundations and everyday decision-making. It aims to illustrate patient selection criteria and offer a step-by-step approach to image acquisition, interpretation, and reporting, with particular emphasis on common pitfalls and practical tips whose understanding can help ensure robust, reproducible, and clinically meaningful results. The volume is organized into the following 9 chapters:

Chapter 1 – Fundamentals of Cardiac CT
Chapter 2 – Coronary Anatomy and Anatomical Variants
Chapter 3 – Atherosclerotic Plaque Imaging
Chapter 4 – Coronary Calcium Scoring and Cardiovascular Risk
Chapter 5 – Functional Imaging and Ischemia Assessment
Chapter 6 – Coronary Inflammation and Next-Generation Imaging
Chapter 7 – Cardiac CT in Acute and Chronic Coronary Syndromes
Chapter 8 – Cardiac CT: Applications Beyond the Coronary Arteries
Chapter 9 – Future Perspectives and Artificial Intelligence