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ReviewJournal of cardiovascular development and disease2024

Photon-Counting Detector Computed Tomography (PCD-CT): A New Era for Cardiovascular Imaging? Current Status and Future Outlooks.

Pietro G Lacaita, Anna Luger, Felix Troger, Gerlig Widmann, Gudrun M Feuchtner

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Review in Journal of cardiovascular development and disease, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  4. Computed Tomography and Coronary Plaque Analysis.Tomography (Ann Arbor, Mich.) · 2025
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  9. Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography (CTA) Findings in COVID-19.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Pietro G LacaitaDepartment Radiology, Innsbruck Medical University, Anichstrasse 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.ORCID 0009-0008-4049-4494
Anna LugerDepartment Radiology, Innsbruck Medical University, Anichstrasse 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-0445-8372
Felix TrogerDepartment Radiology, Innsbruck Medical University, Anichstrasse 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-0401-5045
Gerlig WidmannDepartment Radiology, Innsbruck Medical University, Anichstrasse 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-7255-0672
Gudrun M FeuchtnerDepartment Radiology, Innsbruck Medical University, Anichstrasse 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.ORCID 0000-0001-6755-4399

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Photon-counting detector computed tomography (PCD-CT) represents a revolutionary new generation of computed tomography (CT) for the imaging of patients with cardiovascular diseases. Since its commercial market introduction in 2021, numerous studies have identified advantages of this new technology in the field of cardiovascular imaging, including improved image quality due to an enhanced contrast-to-noise ratio, superior spatial resolution, reduced artifacts, and a reduced radiation dose. The aim of this narrative review was to discuss the current scientific literature, and to find answers to the question of whether PCD-CT has yet led to a true step-change and significant progress in cardiovascular imaging.

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cardiovascular diseasescomputed tomography (CT)coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA)imagingphoton-counting detector CT (PCD-CT)

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PMID38667745
PMCPMC11050624

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