Professor Marc Dweck, University of Edinburgh, UK
Contrast CT is a very powerful technique for looking inside coronary arteries. It enables us to visualise and, with the help of modern AI systems, to quantify the amount of different types of plaque in an artery. This provides very powerful information because, if you want to predict the likelihood of a myocardial infarction (MI), at a simple level, the more plaques you have, the more likely you will have a plaque rupture event and then an MI.
