Radiology Business January 3, 2024
Elevated focus on coronary CTA
One of the notable trends observed in the CT market was the heightened emphasis on developing systems tailored for coronary computed tomography angiography. CCTA has seen rapid adoption and growth since it was granted a Class 1A recommendation for frontline imaging in the 2021 American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology Chest Pain Guidelines.
CT vendors Siemens, Canon and Hitachi launched four new scanners at RSNA, all of which target the growing cardiovascular CT market. It is unusual that this many new CT systems would be introduced in one year at RSNA, but it shows that vendors are taking the modality for cardiac imaging more seriously than in the previous decade. All vendors said...