Guidelines, consensus, and appropriateness criteria

ACR Appropriateness Criteria (several as near-lead), SCCT expert consensus including CAD-RADS 2.0, CCTA terminology, emergency CCTA, myocardial CT perfusion, and congenital heart disease CT, plus AHA scientific statements and multimodality appropriate-use criteria.

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  1. 2026
    ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Preprocedural Chest or Cardiac Imaging for Cardiothoracic Surgery J Am Coll Radiol · PubMed
  2. 2026
    Coronary Atherosclerosis in Patients With Cancer and Survivors: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association Circulation · PubMed
  3. 2025
    ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Assessment of Cardiac Function and Baseline Cardiac Risk Stratification in Oncology Patients J Am Coll Radiol · PubMed
  4. 2025
    ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Evaluation of Coronary Artery Anomalies J Am Coll Radiol · PubMed
  5. 2024
    ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Preprocedural Planning for Left Atrial Procedures in Atrial Fibrillation J Am Coll Radiol · PubMed
  6. 2023
    2022 use of coronary computed tomographic angiography for patients presenting with acute chest pain to the emergency department: An expert consensus document of the Society of cardiovascular computed tomography (SCCT): Endorsed by the American College of Radiology (ACR) and North American Society for cardiovascular Imaging (NASCI) J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr · PubMed
  7. 2023
    ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Workup of Noncerebral Systemic Arterial Embolic Source J Am Coll Radiol · PubMed
  8. 2023
    Proposed competencies for the performance of cardiovascular computed tomography in pediatric and adult congenital heart disease J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr · PubMed
  9. 2023
    Standardized medical terminology for cardiac computed tomography 2023 update: An Expert Consensus Document of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT), American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), American College of Radiology (ACR), North American Society for Cardiovascular Imaging (NASCI) and Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) with endorsement by the Asian Society of Cardiovascular Imaging (ASCI), the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACI), and the European Society of Cardiovascular Radiology (ESCR) J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr · PubMed
  10. 2022
    ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Chronic Chest Pain-High Probability of Coronary Artery Disease: 2021 Update J Am Coll Radiol · PubMed
  11. 2022
    CAD-RADS™ 2.0 - 2022 Coronary Artery Disease-Reporting and Data System: An Expert Consensus Document of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT), the American College of Cardiology (ACC), the American College of Radiology (ACR), and the North America Society of Cardiovascular Imaging (NASCI) J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr · PubMed
  12. 2022
    Pre-procedural planning of coronary revascularization by cardiac computed tomography: An expert consensus document of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr · PubMed
  13. 2021
    ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Asymptomatic Patient at Risk for Coronary Artery Disease: 2021 Update J Am Coll Radiol · PubMed · first author
  14. 2021
    ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Infective Endocarditis J Am Coll Radiol · PubMed
  15. 2021
    ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Suspected Acute Aortic Syndrome J Am Coll Radiol · PubMed
  16. 2021
    ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Syncope J Am Coll Radiol · PubMed
  17. 2020
    ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Acute Nonspecific Chest Pain-Low Probability of Coronary Artery Disease J Am Coll Radiol · PubMed
  18. 2020
    ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Blunt Chest Trauma-Suspected Cardiac Injury J Am Coll Radiol · PubMed
  19. 2020
    Recommendations for risk stratified use of cardiac computed tomography for congenital heart disease during the COVID-19 pandemic J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr · PubMed
  20. 2020
    Society of cardiovascular computed tomography expert consensus document on myocardial computed tomography perfusion imaging J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr · PubMed
  21. 2020
    Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography guidance for use of cardiac computed tomography amidst the COVID-19 pandemic Endorsed by the American College of Cardiology J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr · PubMed
  22. 2019
    ACC/AATS/AHA/ASE/ASNC/HRS/SCAI/SCCT/SCMR/STS 2019 Appropriate Use Criteria for Multimodality Imaging in the Assessment of Cardiac Structure and Function in Nonvalvular Heart Disease: A Report of the American College of Cardiology Appropriate Use Criteria Task Force, American Association for Thoracic Surgery, American Heart Association, American Society of Echocardiography, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, Heart Rhythm Society, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons J Am Coll Cardiol · PubMed
  23. 2018
    ACC/AATS/AHA/ASE/ASNC/HRS/SCAI/SCCT/SCMR/STS 2017 Appropriate Use Criteria for Multimodality Imaging in Valvular Heart Disease: A Report of the American College of Cardiology Appropriate Use Criteria Task Force, American Association for Thoracic Surgery, American Heart Association, American Society of Echocardiography, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, Heart Rhythm Society, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, and Society of Thoracic Surgeons J Am Soc Echocardiogr · PubMed
  24. 2017
    ACR Appropriateness Criteria(®) Chronic Chest Pain-High Probability of Coronary Artery Disease J Am Coll Radiol · PubMed
  25. 2016
    Adherence to the 2010 American College of Cardiology Foundation Appropriate Use Criteria for Cardiac Computed Tomography: Quality Analysis at a Tertiary Referral Center J Patient Saf · PubMed · senior author
  26. 2015
    Computed Tomography Imaging in Patients with Congenital Heart Disease Part I: Rationale and Utility. An Expert Consensus Document of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT): Endorsed by the Society of Pediatric Radiology (SPR) and the North American Society of Cardiac Imaging (NASCI) J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr · PubMed
  27. 2015
    Computed Tomography Imaging in Patients with Congenital Heart Disease, Part 2: Technical Recommendations. An Expert Consensus Document of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT): Endorsed by the Society of Pediatric Radiology (SPR) and the North American Society of Cardiac Imaging (NASCI) J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr · PubMed
  28. 2015
    Congenital heart disease in the older adult: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association Circulation · PubMed