The Heart and Vascular Center runs a high-volume cardiac CT program covering all aspects of cardiac imaging, led by EACVI Level III cardiac CT experts and performed jointly by radiologists and cardiologists.
4,500+
cardiac CT examinations per year
2
CT systems incl. photon-counting CT
~20
radiologists and cardiologists reporting
Indications
Clinical services
Coronary CT angiography
Evaluation of suspected or known coronary artery disease, including plaque assessment and calcium scoring.
Structural interventions
Pre-procedural planning for TAVI and other transcatheter interventions.
Valvular heart disease
Prosthetic valve assessment after surgical or transcatheter valve replacement, including hypoattenuated leaflet thickening (HALT) and valve dysfunction.
Heart transplantation follow-up
Post-transplant follow-up of heart transplant recipients.
CT-guided PCI
CCTA-based planning of complex percutaneous coronary interventions.
Photon-counting CT
High-resolution coronary and stent imaging with the NAEOTOM Alpha.Peak photon-counting CT.
CCTA with LAD curved planar reformation.
Stent imaging on coronary CT angiography.
Whole-aorta CT angiography for structural and vascular planning.
Myocardial iodine map from spectral CT.
Plaque overlay on the coronary tree.
Case studies
Photon-counting CT cases
Selected clinical cases from our centre, published on the Siemens Healthineers Connect community.