Ron Blankstein, MD, is Associate Director of the Cardiovascular Imaging Program; Director of Cardiac Computed Tomography; Co-Director of the Cardiovascular Imaging Training Program, and Associate Physician in Preventive Cardiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He is also Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Immediate Past-President of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. He was recruited by Dr Eugene Braunwald to edit this new title in the Braunwald's Heart Disease Companion series.

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• SECTION I BASIC PRINCIPLES OF CARDIAC CT 1. Image Acquisition Protocols for Different Types of Cardiac CT2. Advances in Hardware and Reconstruction Techniques for Cardiac CTSECTION II CARDIAC CT AND PREVENTION 3. Coronary Artery Calcium Scanning Indications and Patient Management4. Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography for Primary Prevention5. Sex Differences in Coronary AtherosclerosisSECTION III CORONARY CT ANGIOGRAPHY 6. How to Obtain a High-Quality Coronary CT Angiography7. Diagnostic Accuracy of Coronary CT Angiography8. Coronary CT Angiography for Acute Chest Pain Clinical Indications Protocols and Patient Management9. The Role of Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography in Patients With Stable Chest Pain10. Coronary Stents and Bypass GraftsSECTION IV CORONARY CTA AND PLAQUE ANALYSIS 11. Approaches to Plaque Imaging by CCTA12. Plaque on CCTA Lessons From HistologySECTION V ADDITIONAL CT-BASED TECHNIQUES TO EVALUATE CAD 13. Cardiac Computed Tomography Fractional Flow Reserve CT-FFR Current Clinical Evidence and Limitations14. Evaluating Coronary Inflammation Using the Fat Attenuation Index15. Myocardial Perfusion ImagingSECTION VI SPECIAL POPULATIONS 16. Cardiac Computed Tomography in Patients With Diabetes17. CCTA in Chronic Inflammatory Diseases18. Cardiac Computed Tomography in Cardio-oncologySECTION VII VALVULAR AND STRUCTURAL HEART DISEASE 19. Cardiac Computed Tomography for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement20. Use of Cardiac Computed Tomography in Structural Heart Disease Interventions21. Cardiac Masses22. Endocarditis in Native and Prosthetic Valves

Ron Blankstein, MD, is Associate Director of the Cardiovascular Imaging Program; Director of Cardiac Computed Tomography; Co-Director of the Cardiovascular Imaging Training Program, and Associate Physician in Preventive Cardiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He is also Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Immediate Past-President of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. He was recruited by Dr Eugene Braunwald to edit this new title in the Braunwald's Heart Disease Companion series.

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• SECTION I BASIC PRINCIPLES OF CARDIAC CT 1. Image Acquisition Protocols for Different Types of Cardiac CT2. Advances in Hardware and Reconstruction Techniques for Cardiac CTSECTION II CARDIAC CT AND PREVENTION 3. Coronary Artery Calcium Scanning Indications and Patient Management4. Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography for Primary Prevention5. Sex Differences in Coronary AtherosclerosisSECTION III CORONARY CT ANGIOGRAPHY 6. How to Obtain a High-Quality Coronary CT Angiography7. Diagnostic Accuracy of Coronary CT Angiography8. Coronary CT Angiography for Acute Chest Pain Clinical Indications Protocols and Patient Management9. The Role of Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography in Patients With Stable Chest Pain10. Coronary Stents and Bypass GraftsSECTION IV CORONARY CTA AND PLAQUE ANALYSIS 11. Approaches to Plaque Imaging by CCTA12. Plaque on CCTA Lessons From HistologySECTION V ADDITIONAL CT-BASED TECHNIQUES TO EVALUATE CAD 13. Cardiac Computed Tomography Fractional Flow Reserve CT-FFR Current Clinical Evidence and Limitations14. Evaluating Coronary Inflammation Using the Fat Attenuation Index15. Myocardial Perfusion ImagingSECTION VI SPECIAL POPULATIONS 16. Cardiac Computed Tomography in Patients With Diabetes17. CCTA in Chronic Inflammatory Diseases18. Cardiac Computed Tomography in Cardio-oncologySECTION VII VALVULAR AND STRUCTURAL HEART DISEASE 19. Cardiac Computed Tomography for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement20. Use of Cardiac Computed Tomography in Structural Heart Disease Interventions21. Cardiac Masses22. Endocarditis in Native and Prosthetic Valves

Ron Blankstein, MD, is Associate Director of the Cardiovascular Imaging Program; Director of Cardiac Computed Tomography; Co-Director of the Cardiovascular Imaging Training Program, and Associate Physician in Preventive Cardiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He is also Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Immediate Past-President of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. He was recruited by Dr Eugene Braunwald to edit this new title in the Braunwald's Heart Disease Companion series.

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• SECTION I BASIC PRINCIPLES OF CARDIAC CT 1. Image Acquisition Protocols for Different Types of Cardiac CT2. Advances in Hardware and Reconstruction Techniques for Cardiac CTSECTION II CARDIAC CT AND PREVENTION 3. Coronary Artery Calcium Scanning Indications and Patient Management4. Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography for Primary Prevention5. Sex Differences in Coronary AtherosclerosisSECTION III CORONARY CT ANGIOGRAPHY 6. How to Obtain a High-Quality Coronary CT Angiography7. Diagnostic Accuracy of Coronary CT Angiography8. Coronary CT Angiography for Acute Chest Pain Clinical Indications Protocols and Patient Management9. The Role of Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography in Patients With Stable Chest Pain10. Coronary Stents and Bypass GraftsSECTION IV CORONARY CTA AND PLAQUE ANALYSIS 11. Approaches to Plaque Imaging by CCTA12. Plaque on CCTA Lessons From HistologySECTION V ADDITIONAL CT-BASED TECHNIQUES TO EVALUATE CAD 13. Cardiac Computed Tomography Fractional Flow Reserve CT-FFR Current Clinical Evidence and Limitations14. Evaluating Coronary Inflammation Using the Fat Attenuation Index15. Myocardial Perfusion ImagingSECTION VI SPECIAL POPULATIONS 16. Cardiac Computed Tomography in Patients With Diabetes17. CCTA in Chronic Inflammatory Diseases18. Cardiac Computed Tomography in Cardio-oncologySECTION VII VALVULAR AND STRUCTURAL HEART DISEASE 19. Cardiac Computed Tomography for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement20. Use of Cardiac Computed Tomography in Structural Heart Disease Interventions21. Cardiac Masses22. Endocarditis in Native and Prosthetic Valves