First–Arterial-Pass Dual-Energy CT for Assessment of Myocardial Blood Supply: Do We Need Rest, Stress, and Delayed Acquisition? Comparison with SPECT

Abstract

Rest-stress acquisition should be the protocol of choice for assessment of the myocardial blood supply in DE CT. The accuracy of DE CT is not increased by the addition of a delayed DE CT acquisition, which may therefore be omitted to reduce radiation exposure. With rest-stress DE CT, almost one-half of defects that are reversible at SPECT were classified as fixed; radiologists and clinicians need to be aware of this incongruence when they interpret DE CT myocardial perfusion studies.