Advances in Cardiovascular Imaging Technologies
A special issue of Medicina (ISSN 1648-9144). This special issue belongs to the section "Cardiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 14
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cardiac computed tomography (CT) has emerged as a useful technique for providing deeper insights into cardiovascular diseases. Advances in CT technology facilitate cardiac tissue characterization, allowing myocardial tissue types to be differentiated with high resolution. Cardiac CT allows the assessment of tissue properties such as myocardial perfusion, fibrosis, and fat infiltration, which are critical in diagnosing ischemic heart disease, microvascular obstruction, heart failure, cardiomyopathies, and other cardiac conditions. High-resolution scanners can help to assess minor surgical complications and prostheses, allowing HALT, pannus, thrombosis, endocarditis, abscesses, and other characterizations to be detected. The use of contrast agents, along with advanced imaging techniques such as photon-counting CT, allows for high-resolution imaging of tissue heterogeneity, making it a valuable tool for non-invasive evaluation. Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) has emerged as a transformative tool in the non-invasive assessment of cardiac tissue, enabling a more precise characterization of myocardial structures and pathologies. Employing two distinct energy levels, it provides unique advantages in tissue differentiation through the energy-dependent attenuation of various tissues, allowing for better delineation of tissue properties such as fat, fibrosis, calcification, and water content, also improving quantitative imaging and iodine mapping.
Furthermore, new methodologies like CT-based tissue characterization models and artificial intelligence algorithms are enhancing the accuracy of differentiating normal and pathological cardiac tissues. The integration of cardiac CT with other imaging modalities, such as cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR), is also highlighted as a promising approach for comprehensive cardiac tissue assessment in cardiac clinical settings.
This Special Issue focuses on current techniques for cardiac tissue characterization using CT, explores the role of texture analysis, and discusses the challenges in achieving precise tissue differentiation.
Dual-energy CT and photon-counting CT are promising technologies for cutting-edge research and integration with advanced artificial intelligence analytics.
New research in cardiac CT tissue applications and comparison with cardiac magnetic resonance are required. Authors are welcome to submit original articles, reports on novel treatment strategies and advances in decision-making, clinical outcome studies, comparative studies, narrative reviews, scoping reviews, and systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
Dr. Flavia Nicoli
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cardiac CT
- tissue characterization
- advanced technologies
- cardiac imaging
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