Siemens 2010 Image Contest Winner - Flash ECG Thorax (SOMATOM Definition Flash / 0.82 mSv dose)

Petter QuickCMIV Linköping University – Sweden A 47-year-old woman with unspecific chest pain with some ST-changes of ECG but otherwise normal. CT was performed to rule out coronary artery disease, pulmonary embolism, as well as lung tumor. CT examination showed no pathology.
Jury statement: “This case represented everything that chest CT can be - a high quality, volume data set that can provide information for vascular imaging as well as the lung parenchyma. High quality imaging requires the right scanner, the right protocols and the right execution of these protocols. This image tells that story very nicely.”*
* Jury statement. Jury consists of:Prof. Stephan Achenbach, MD, Prof. Elliot K. Fishman, MD, Prof. Dominik Fleischmann, MD, Prof. Yutaka Imai, MD, Prof. Zhengyu Jin, MD, Prof. Borut Marincek, MD, Prof. Maximilian Reiser, MD and Prof. Uwe Joseph Schoepf, MD