President's page: Ten years of innovation in cardiac CT

摘要

Dear colleagues and friends, It is truly an honor to be the President of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT). It is particularly exciting when the Society prepares to celebrate its 10th anniversary during the next annual meeting in Las Vegas in July 2015. However, I would like to take a step back and look to our past, which will no doubt help us prepare for the future. It is difficult to pinpoint when the field of cardiac CT was born. The use of coronary CT angiography (CCTA) was first described using electron beam CT in 1995 and then further validated against invasive angiography in 1998. Four-slice multidetector CT (MDCT) was first introduced in the year 2000 and the first publications on CCTA appeared soon thereafter in 2001. Sixteen-slice MDCT CCTA was initially validated in the years 2002 to 2003. However, it was not until the introduction of 64-slice MDCT in late 2004 that the field took off and reliable evaluation of the coronary arteries was made possible with few nonevaluable segments and good correlation with invasive coronary angiography.