Since its clinical introduction almost 20 years ago, cardiac CT has been embraced as an indispensable noninvasive cardiac imaging modality and an important first-line test for coronary artery disease. Beyond coronary artery disease, the potential of cardiac CT has become evident for diagnosis and guidance of treatment in a variety of other cardiac pathologies, including valvular disease, atrial fibrillation and other arrhythmias, endocarditis, cardiac masses,
cardiomyopathies, and others.The European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) has declared as one of their foremost priorities to facilitate education and training in cardiovascular CT
through teaching courses, congresses, and a structured certification program. This handbook represents an important step towards dissemination of skills and knowledge in cardiovascular CT. It is a concise and practical companion, to benefit students, trainees or advanced users; cardiologists, radiologists, cardiac surgeons or technicians, in their everyday practice. Four broad sections cover technical aspects and physical background, coronary indications (e.g. coronary CT
angiography, atherosclerosis imaging, stents & bypasses, functional CT imaging, etc.), non-coronary indications (CT for valve disease, infective endocarditis, CT of the left atrium, congenital heart disease,
cardiac masses, extracardiac findings, etc.), and finally training and competence in cardiac CT. The handbook features short chapters, enriched with illustrations, tables and condensed summaries, facilitating rapid and intuitive access.
Author Biography:
Prof Gaemperli studied medicine at the University of Zurich and graduated in 2003. From 2003 to 2009 he underwent a clinical fellowship in internal medicine and cardiology at the University Hospital Zurich. From 2009 to 2010, Prof. Gaemperli joined the MRC Cyclotron Unit of the Hammersmith Hospital in London, UK for a 2-year research fellowship in cardiac PET, MRI and CT-Imaging. After this, he returned to the University Hospital Zurich where he assummed a
Consultant Position and was trained in Interventional Cardiology. In 2016, he was awarded with the Sheikh Khalifa Professorship for Interventional Cardiology and Cardiac Imaging.
His main fields of interest are Cardiac Imaging and interventional cardiology. Since 2018, Prof. Gaemperli holds a position as consultant interventional cardiologist and CEO of the HeartClinic Hirslanden Zurich. Pál Maurovich-Horvat MD PhD MPH, Associate Professor of Cardiology and Radiology, director of the Cardiovascular Imaging Research Group at the Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary. He is the president of the Hungarian Association of Cardiovascular Imaging, and board member
of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging of the European Society of Cardiology Dr. Maurovich-Horvat graduated from the Semmelweis University in 2006, which was was followed by a three-year long
advanced cardiovascular imaging research fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Maurovich-Horvat studied clinical effectiveness at the Harvard University, School of Public Health, where he graduated in 2012. His research interest focuses on the development of non-invasive diagnostic imaging strategies to identify high-risk patients and vulnerable coronary plaques. Dr Nieman is a cardiologist and professor in the departments of medicine/cardiovascular and
radiology. He investigates advanced cardiac imaging techniques. He is currently the president of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography.
Dr Nieman was born in the Netherlands, obtained his medical degree at the Radboud University in Nijmegen (1998), and completed his cardiology training at the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam (2008). His research in cardiac CT at the Erasmus University resulted in a PhD degree in 2003. In 2004 he performed an imaging fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital (Harvard Medical School) in Boston, MA. Dr Nieman joined the staff of the department of cardiology and radiology at
the Erasmus University Medical Center in 2008, where he was scientific director of the cardiac CT and MRI group and supervised the intensive cardiac care unit until he joined the staff at Stanford
University. Dr Gianluca Pontone was graduated with honors in medicine in 1997 followed by post-graduate degree in cardiology and radiology and PhD in Clinical Methodology in 2001, 2006 and 2014 at University of Milan, Italy. He is currently director of Cardiovascular Imaging Department of Centro Cardiologico Monzino, a fully dedicated research hospital to cardiovascular disease where the University of Milan is based. He is author of more than 300 indexed articles on international journal,
several scientific books, more than 500 scientific abstracts and lectures at national and international meetings in the field of cardiovascular imaging. He is currently in the board member of SCCT, EACVI,
chairman of CT certification committee of European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI), past chairman of working group of cardiac magnetic resonance of Italian society of cardiology and deputy chairman of working group of cardiac computed tomography of Italian society of Cardiology. Francesca Pugliese qualified from Medical School of University of Genoa in 2000 and was awarded her certificate of completion of speciality training in 2004. She then joined the non-invasive cardiac
imaging group at the Thoraxcentre/Erasmus MC University Medical Centre Rotterdam and received her PhD with honors in 2008. Since then she has worked for the Royal Brompton hospital and in the Cardiology
group of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, at Hammersmith Hospital, in cardiovascular hybrid imaging (PET/CT). After contributing to the clinical service of the Essex Cardiothoracic Centre in Essex in 2009, she joined the Centre for Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging and the NIHR Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit at Barts as a Senior Clinical Lecturer in May 2010.
