Why the study?
Does standard thoracic CT scanning provide useful diagnostic information on incidental coronary artery calcification compared to EBCT?
Does standard thoracic CT scanning provide useful diagnostic information on incidental coronary artery calcification compared to EBCT?
Standard thoracic CT scans can reliably detect dense coronary artery calcifications, providing important prognostic information without the need for specialized EBCT equipment.
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Routine thoracic CT may flag dense coronary calcifications on incidental scans; leaves open its utility versus EBCT for quantification or risk stratification.
Callaway et al. (1997) studied this question.
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