BACKGROUND: We evaluated the incremental diagnostic value of fusion images of coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) and myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) over MPI alone or MPI and CTA side-by-side to identify obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD > 50% stenosis) using invasive coronary angiography (ICA) as the gold standard. METHODS: 50 subjects (36 men; 56 +/- 11 years old) underwent rest-stress MPI and CTA within 12-26 days of each other. CTAs were performed with multi-detector CT-scanners (31 on 64-slice; and 19 on 16-slice). 37 patients underwent ICA while 13 subjects did not because of low (<5%) pre-test likelihood (LLK) of disease. Three blinded readers scored the images in sequential sessions using (1) MPI alone (2) MPI and CTA side-by-side, (3) fused CTA/MPI images. RESULTS: One or more critical stenoses during ICA were found in 28 patients and non-critical stenoses were found in 9 patients. MPI, side-by-side MPI-CTA, and fused CTA/MPI showed the same normalcy rate (NR:13/13) in LLK subjects. The fusion technique performed better than MPI and MPI and CTA side-by-side for the presence of CAD in any vessel (overall area under the curve (AUC) for fused images: 0.89; P = .005 vs MPI, P = .04 vs side-by-side MPI-CTA) and for localization of CAD to the left anterior descending coronary artery (AUC: 0.82, P < .001 vs MPI; P = .007 vs side-by-side MPI-CTA). There was a non-significant trend for better detection of multi-vessel disease with fusion. CONCLUSIONS: Using ICA as the gold standard, fusion imaging provided incremental diagnostic information compared to MPI alone or side-by-side MPI-CTA for the diagnosis of obstructive CAD and for localization of CAD to the left anterior descending coronary artery.
BACKGROUND: We evaluated the incremental diagnostic value of fusion images of coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) and myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) over MPI alone or MPI and CTA side-by-side to identify obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD > 50% stenosis) using invasive coronary angiography (ICA) as the gold standard. METHODS: 50 subjects (36 men; 56 +/- 11 years old) underwent rest-stress MPI and CTA within 12-26 days of each other. CTAs were performed with multi-detector CT-scanners (31 on 64-slice; and 19 on 16-slice). 37 patients underwent ICA while 13 subjects did not because of low (<5%) pre-test likelihood (LLK) of disease. Three blinded readers scored the images in sequential sessions using (1) MPI alone (2) MPI and CTA side-by-side, (3) fused CTA/MPI images. RESULTS: One or more critical stenoses during ICA were found in 28 patients and non-critical stenoses were found in 9 patients. MPI, side-by-side MPI-CTA, and fused CTA/MPI showed the same normalcy rate (NR:13/13) in LLK subjects. The fusion technique performed better than MPI and MPI and CTA side-by-side for the presence of CAD in any vessel (overall area under the curve (AUC) for fused images: 0.89; P = .005 vs MPI, P = .04 vs side-by-side MPI-CTA) and for localization of CAD to the left anterior descending coronary artery (AUC: 0.82, P < .001 vs MPI; P = .007 vs side-by-side MPI-CTA). There was a non-significant trend for better detection of multi-vessel disease with fusion. CONCLUSIONS: Using ICA as the gold standard, fusion imaging provided incremental diagnostic information compared to MPI alone or side-by-side MPI-CTA for the diagnosis of obstructive CAD and for localization of CAD to the left anterior descending coronary artery.
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