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| Year : 2010 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 125-130 |
Cardiac imaging: Current and emerging applications
B Jankharia1, A Raut2
1 Piramal Diagnostic Services (Formerly Wellspring), Piramal Diagnostics - Jankharia Imaging, Bhaveshwar Vihar, India
2 Department of Radiology, KEM Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, India
Correspondence Address:
B Jankharia
Piramal Diagnostic Services (Formerly Wellspring), Piramal Diagnostics - Jankharia Imaging, Bhaveshwar Vihar
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/0022-3859.65289
Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) scan have made big inroads as modalities used for evaluation of various pathologies of the heart. Cardiac MRI is typically used for perfusion and viability studies as well as to study various cardiomyopathies, valvular diseases and the pericardium. It has been used in the evaluation of congenital heart diseases over the last two decades. Cardiac CT is used mainly for the evaluation of the coronary arteries, typically in the setting of "to rule out coronary artery disease".
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