The development of MDCT has radically changed cardiac imaging allowing non-invasive assessment of cardiac anatomy with high resolution images and offering a unique tool for the evaluation of coronary arteries disease.  This new textbook offers a comprehensive and interesting overview of cardiac MDCT presented in a 129-page atlas covering all aspects of this technology from technical principles and anatomy to clinical applications.

The text includes a large database of 160 high quality images, with 116 in colour, depicting cardiac anatomy and main coronary anomalies as well as coronary calcium score, assessment of stenosis, stent imaging and coronary artery by-pass graft. A large number of cases is also correlated with corresponding invasive angiographic images.

The authors also offer some practical tips for optimizing image quality during data acquisition and obtaining a technically adequate exam that can be of great use in daily clinical practice. An entire chapter of the book is dedicated to the evaluation of myocardial viability and left ventricular regional and global function.  This area represents a further interesting development of this technique, enlarging the field of interest of cardiac MDCT from a simple morphological evaluation of coronary arteries to the assessment of myocardial viability and function.

 This synthetic volume discusses relevant clinical and technical aspects of cardiac CT for physicians approaching cardiac imaging and could provide a significant contribution to the education of radiologists, cardiologists, technologists, and physicists involved in cardiac imaging.