New Expert Consensus Document on Coronary CT Imaging of Atherosclerotic Plaque SCCT and NASCI consensus provides a comprehensive review of evidence on imaging of coronary atherosclerosis and standardized definitions for high-risk plaque (HRP) features Coronary CT angiography images courtesy of Canon Medical Systems. January 18, 2020 — The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT), in collaboration with the North American Society of Cardiovascular Imaging (NASCI), recently released a new expert consensus document on coronary CT imaging of atherosclerotic plaque.
Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography and co-published in NASCI’s International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging,[1] provides a comprehensive review of the available evidence on imaging of coronary atherosclerosis and standardized definitions for high-risk plaque (HRP) features and distilled evidence on the effectiveness of risk stratification into usable practice points.