How is CT coronary angiogram done?
The patient is placed on a comfortable CT scanner table. A baseline Coronary Calcium Score is calculated within 5 seconds. A CT Angiogram is obtained following contrast injection in one of the peripheral vines of the hand with online ECG monitoring. The contrast used is the same as for CT Studies of other organs of the body such as brain, chest, abdomen, etc. All the images for CT Coronary angio are obtained in one single breath hold within 5 seconds. The entire procedure hardly takes 10 minutes after which the patient is ready to continue his/her daily routine. The information obtained from the patients is processed, reformatted, analyzed and evaluated on a workstation. The inferences deduced from this plethora of information is capable of providing the radiologist an accurate picture of the status of the heart and the coronary vessels that supply it.
