My doctor recently recommended that I get a cardiac CT calcium scan to help stratify my risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD).

ANSWER: A coronary calcium score uses a very fast CT scanner to take pictures of the blood vessels that supply the heart ...

April 11, 2011 (New Orleans, Louisiana) — Coronary calcium can be accurately quantified with a single standard-contrast computed tomography (CT) scan, thereby eliminating the added radiation exposure ...

TNGMSSH introduces CT calcium scoring for cardiac risk assessment, offering a safe, non-invasive alternative for preventive ...

A 10-year follow-up study of more than 6,000 people who underwent heart CT scans suggests that a high coronary artery calcium score puts people at greater risk not only for heart and vascular disease ...

NEW YORK, Nov. 18 (UPI) --Predicting who is at high risk for a heart attack or death may be as simple as obtaining a person's coronary artery calcium score -- a noninvasive way to measure plaque ...

Now, with innovations such as the coronary calcium score and CT coronary angiography (CTCA), we can see inside the heart in ...

WASHINGTON (March 29, 2014) — Coronary artery calcium scoring, a test that measures the amount and pattern of calcium that has accumulated in a patient's coronary arteries, appears to provide an early ...

CT Calcium scoring could fail African Americans at risk of heart problems, it has been found. Cardiac calcium scoring uses a special X-ray test called computed tomography (CT) to check for the buildup ...