BioMed Central, BioMedical Engineering OnLine, 1(14), 2015
DOI: 10.1186/s12938-015-0048-y
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Abstract Objective We sought to evaluate the accuracy of quantitative three-dimensional (3D) CT angiography (CTA) for the assessment of coronary luminal stenosis using digital subtraction angiography (DSA) as the standard of reference. Method Twenty-three patients with 54 lesions were referred for CTA followed by DSA. The CTA scans were performed with 256-slice spiral CT. 3D CTA were reconstructed from two-dimensional CTA imaging sequences in order to extract the following quantitative indices: minimal lumen diameter, percent diameter stenosis (%DS), minimal lumen area, and percent area stenosis (%AS). Correlation and limits of agreement were calculated using Pearson correlation and Bland–Altman analysis, respectively. The diagnostic performance and the diagnostic concordance of 3D CTA-derived anatomic parameters (%DS, %AS) for the detection of severe coronary arterial stenosis (as assessed by DSA) were presented as sensitivity, specificity, diagnostic accuracy, and Kappa statistics. Of which vessels with %DS >50% or with %AS >75% were identified as severe coronary arterial lesions. Result The correlations of the anatomic parameters between 3D CTA and DSA were significant ( r = 0.51–0.74, P