Myocardial CT perfusion for the prediction of obstructive coronary artery disease, valuable or not?

Adenosine stress myocardial computed tomography perfusion (CTP) is a relatively new myocardial perfusion imaging technique. Together with coronary CT angiography (CTA) it provides anatomic and functional information of coronary artery disease (CAD). In previous studies, the combination of these techniques demonstrated to be valuable for identifying hemodynamically significant stenoses. George et al., performed a secondary analysis on the CORE320 study and compared the diagnostic performance of CTP to single positron emission computed tomography (SPECT) myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) to diagnose obstructive CAD (defined as ≥50% luminal stenosis). In this editorial the results and limitations of the study are discussed, as well as opportunities that this new perfusion technique brings with it.