The recent improvements in multi-detector computed tomography technology and its application in cardiac field allow to consider this non-invasive imaging technique as a promising comprehensive method for detecting significant coronary stenoses in a chest-pain unit. The possibility to use the ECG-synchronisation acquisition protocol, normally limited to the cardiac volume, for the entire thoracic vascular system should have the remarkable potential to reduce invasive and non-invasive procedures actually used to investigate acute chest pain and the number of unnecessary hospital admissions without reducing appropriate admissions in patients with chest pain.

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doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrad.2007.06.021, hdl.handle.net/1765/36182
European Journal of Radiology
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Runza, G., Alaimo, V., la Grutta, L., Galia, M., Basile, A., Cademartiri, F., … Midiri, M. (2007). Can ECG-gated MDCT be considered an obligatory step to plan and manage a new chest-pain unit?. European Journal of Radiology, 64(1), 48–53. doi:10.1016/j.ejrad.2007.06.021