In this article, the authors discuss the technical background and summarize the current body
of literature regarding virtual monoenergetic (VM) images derived from dual-energy CT data …

Heart failure (HF) is an important cardiovascular disease because of its increasing
prevalence, significant morbidity, high mortality, and rapidly expanding health care cost. The …

Cardiac computed tomography (CT) was initially developed as a non-invasive diagnostic
tool to detect and quantify coronary stenosis. Thanks to the rapid technological …

Myocarditis is a nonischemic inflammatory disease of the myocardium that can be triggered
by a multitude of events, including viral infection and toxins. Recently, there has been …

Myocardial fibrosis, seen in ischemic and nonischemic cardiomyopathies, is associated with
adverse cardiac outcomes. Noninvasive imaging plays a key role in early identification and …

Myocarditis is an inflammatory disease of the heart muscle, diagnosed by histological,
immunological, and immunohistochemical criteria. Endomyocardial biopsy represents the …

Dual-energy CT (DECT) provides insights into the material properties of tissues and can
differentiate between tissues with similar attenuation on conventional single-energy …

Purpose To assess the diagnostic performance of dual-energy CT with myocardial delayed
enhancement (MDE) in the detection and classification of myocardial scar in patients with …

Purpose To explore the usefulness of myocardial late iodine enhancement (LIE) and
extracellular volume (ECV) quantification by using dual-energy cardiac CT. Materials and …

Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) represents an emerging imaging technique
which consists of the acquisition of two separate datasets utilizing two different X-ray spectra …