Standardized Medical Terminology for Cardiac Computed Tomography 2023 Update: An Expert Consensus Document of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT), American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), American College of Radiology (ACR), North American Society for Cardiovascular Imaging (NASCI), and Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) with endorsement by the Asian Society of Cardiovascular Imaging (ASCI), the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACI), and the European Society of Cardiovascular Radiology (ESCR)

Lynne Koweek; Stephan Achenbach; Daniel S Berman; J Jeffrey Carr; Ricardo C Cury; Brian Ghoshhajra; Diana Litmanovich; Cynthia H McCollough; Allen J Taylor; Quynh A Truong; Jia Wang; W Guy Weigold; Armin Arbab-Zadeh; Suhny Abbara; Marcus Y Chen

doi:10.1148/ryct.230167

Standardized Medical Terminology for Cardiac Computed Tomography 2023 Update: An Expert Consensus Document of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT), American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), American College of Radiology (ACR), North American Society for Cardiovascular Imaging (NASCI), and Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) with endorsement by the Asian Society of Cardiovascular Imaging (ASCI), the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACI), and the European Society of Cardiovascular Radiology (ESCR)

Radiol Cardiothorac Imaging. 2023 Jul 25;5(4):e230167. doi: 10.1148/ryct.230167. eCollection 2023 Aug.

Authors

Affiliation

¹ From the Department of Radiology, Duke University, USA (L.K.); Department of Cardiology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen, Germany (S. Achenbach); Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA (D.S.B.); Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA (J.J.C.); Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute, Baptist Health of South Florida, USA (R.C.C.); Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA (B.G.); Harvard Medical School, USA (D.L.); Mayo Foundation for Medical Education & Research, USA (C.H.M.); MedStar Heart and Vascular Institute, USA (A.J.T.); Weill Cornell Medicine, USA (Q.A.T.); Stanford University, USA (J.W.); MedStar Washington Hospital Center, USA (W.G.W.); Johns Hopkins University, USA (A.A.Z.); Department of Radiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA (S. Abbara); National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD USA (M.Y.C.).

Abstract

Since the emergence of cardiac computed tomography (Cardiac CT) at the turn of the 21st century, there has been an exponential growth in research and clinical development of the technique, with contributions from investigators and clinicians from varied backgrounds: physics and engineering, informatics, cardiology, and radiology. However, terminology for the field is not unified. As a consequence, there are multiple abbreviations for some terms, multiple terms for some concepts, and some concepts that lack clear definitions and/or usage. In an effort to aid the work of all those who seek to contribute to the literature, clinical practice, and investigation of the field, the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography updates a standard set of medical terms commonly used in clinical and research activities related to cardiac CT. Keywords: Cardiac, CT, Medical Terminology Supplemental material is available for this article. This article is published synchronously in Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging and Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. ©2023 Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. Published by RSNA with permission.

Keywords: CT; Cardiac; Medical Terminology.