ABSTRACT
Recent developments in cardiac CT technology have been
employed primarily to investigate coronary artery disease,
whether to detect and quantify coronary artery calcification
or to directly image coronary artery luminal narrowing with
CT angiography. Considering that coronary artery disease
is the major cause of death in the western world, this is an
eminently reasonable approach. It is worth noting, however,
that not all cardiac pathology involves the coronary arteries,
and that many of the CT techniques used to image the coro-
nary arteries are equally applicable to detecting and charac-
terizing non-coronary pathology. This chapter offers a brief
overview of the use of CT to image the myocardium, peri-
cardium, and cardiac chambers.
