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Neonatal cardiac multidetector row CT: why and how we do it

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Neonatal congenital heart disease is a most difficult area of diagnostic radiology because of the small patient body size and fast resting heart rate. Recently, the spatial and temporal resolution of multidetector-row CT (MDCT) has evolved so that neonatal congenital heart disease can be precisely diagnosed. We describe the role of MDCT in neonatal congenital heart disease and offer tips for the scanning procedure to familiarize radiologists with this developing field.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, No. 160, Sec. 3, Taichung Harbor Road, Taichung 407, Republic of China (Taiwan)

    I-Chen Tsai, Min-Chi Chen, Pao-Chun Lin & Tain Lee

  2. Department of Medicine and Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Republic of China (Taiwan)

    I-Chen Tsai, Sheng-Ling Jan & Yun-Ching Fu

  3. Section of Paediatric Cardiology, Department of Paediatrics, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Republic of China (Taiwan)

    Sheng-Ling Jan & Yun-Ching Fu

  4. Section of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Republic of China (Taiwan)

    Chung-Chi Wang

  5. Faculty of Medicine, Medical College of Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Republic of China (Taiwan)

    Tain Lee

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Tsai, IC., Chen, MC., Jan, SL. et al. Neonatal cardiac multidetector row CT: why and how we do it. Pediatr Radiol 38, 438–451 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00247-008-0761-9

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