How to set up a 24/7 cardiac computed tomography service in an emergency department

Christian Loewe¹, Dietrich Beitzke², Marco Francone^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology, Department for Bioimaging and Image-Guided Therapy, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Christian.loewe@meduniwien.ac.at.
² Division of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology, Department for Bioimaging and Image-Guided Therapy, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
³ Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy.
⁴ IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy.

Editorial

Christian Loewe et al. Eur Radiol. 2023 Nov.

. 2023 Nov;33(11):8177-8179.

doi: 10.1007/s00330-023-09721-x. Epub 2023 May 9.

Christian Loewe¹, Dietrich Beitzke², Marco Francone^{3

4}

¹ Division of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology, Department for Bioimaging and Image-Guided Therapy, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Christian.loewe@meduniwien.ac.at.
² Division of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology, Department for Bioimaging and Image-Guided Therapy, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
³ Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy.
⁴ IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy.

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