Clinical Impact of Cardiac Photon Counting CT
Coronary Artery Disease
About this trial
This is an interventional diagnostic trial for Coronary Artery Disease focused on measuring Coronary CT Angiography, Cardiac Stress Imaging, Photon Counting CT, Cardiac CT
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients referred for coronary artery cardiac CT imaging or nuclear medicine or MRI cardiac perfusion within the Department of Radiology or Cardiology.
- Patients who are able and willing to sign the informed consent will be enrolled
- Negative pregnancy test if subject is of child-bearing age (females of child-bearing potential will be screened for pregnancy using a urine pregnancy test, which will be administered by the unit study coordinator at no cost to the patient).
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients unable to provide written informed consent
- Pregnancy
- eGFR ≤ 30
- History of prior moderate or severe contrast reaction includes: unresponsiveness, severe respiratory distress, convulsions, arrhythmia, cardiopulmonary distress, progressive angioedema, laryngeal edema, dyspnea, bronchospasm, symptomatic tachycardia, symptomatic bradycardia, hypotension, hypertensive crisis.
- Any history of required premedication prior to iodinated contrast administration.
- Patients that consent to participation but do not undergo their clinically-indicated, contrast-enhanced CT, or nuclear medicine or MR perfusion scanning for any reason (e.g., bad IV, infiltration, reaction, change in indication).
- Patients with coronary artery bypass grafts
- Patients experiencing atrial fibrillation, premature ventricular contractions or other heart rhythm abnormalities
- Hospitalized patients or patients under care in the Emergency Department
Specific exclusion criteria only for participation in the cardiac stress test arm of this study (requiring administration of Regadenoson):
- Anything by mouth within three hours of the examination
- Known hypersensitivity to Regadenoson, Adenosine, or Dipyridamole.
- Active ongoing wheezing or poorly controlled asthma or COPD (hospitalized within last month or receiving treatment for flair within last month).
- Second (type I or II) or third degree atrioventricular (AV) block or sinus node dysfunction unless patient has functioning artificial pacemaker.
- Ingested greater than 4 oz. of caffeine within the last 12 hours.
- Currently experiencing unstable coronary syndrome.
- Uncontrollable seizures within the last 3 months
Sites / Locations
- Boleyn AndristRecruiting
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Experimental
Clinical Coronary CTA Cohort
Clinical Nuclear Medicine or MRI Cardiac Stress Test Cohort
Subjects scheduled for a clinically indicated coronary CTA will receive a research contrast-enhanced coronary CT angiogram using photon-counting CT
Subjects scheduled for a clinically indicated nuclear medicine or MRI cardiac stress test will receive a research contrast-enhanced coronary CT angiogram using photon-counting CT at rest and after administration of a cardiac stress agent