Jeffrey C. Hellinger, MD

The cardiovascular community has witnessed historic changes in the way cardiovascular disease is evaluated. Recently, the greatest growth has been in cardiac CT to noninvasively diagnose coronary (Figure 1) and noncoronary cardiac disease (Figure 2).

The Stanford International Symposium on Multidetector-Row CT has gained such momentum in its nine-year history that the next meeting will be in a larger venue in Las Vegas. The growing importance of multislice CT is reflected in the wide range of topics presented this year.

Careful contrast timing and sophisticated acquisition techniques address new applications ranging from transplants to aneurysms