Non-gated chest CT reliable for measuring coronary calcifications

"Vascular calcification is a common pathological feature of many diseases such as atherosclerosis, diabetes, and chronic kidney disease, and one of the important reasons for the high morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases," wrote first author Yuhuan Chen, MD with Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine in Xianyang, Shaanxi, China, and colleagues. Somewhat recently, CAC scoring with ECG-gated CT has become the non-invasive reference standard for detecting calc...

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