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Cta image quality: due to patient's suboptimal breath holding, there are step artifacts involving the proximal and mid portions of rca and proximal and mid portions of lad and mid portion of circumflex. what does this mean?

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That because of breathing the CT scan study had distortions in the areas mentioned This means it was not a study for accurate disgnosis

Answered 6/14/2022

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Translation= the deep breath the patient took before the image was taken was not deep enough to provide a clear study of all areas.

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