This is a 360 degree image from the Canon Aquilion One 320-slice computed tomography (CT) system installed at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, Ill.. The system has a large anatomical imaging area so it is able to capture the entire heart in one rotation instead of stitching images together from different heart beats.
Learn more about cardiac CT by visiting the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) website or attending its annual meeting in July.