Orient yourself on a cardiac CT slice - Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring | Zoonk

Orient yourself on a cardiac CT slice - Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring | Zoonk

Orient yourself on a cardiac CT slice

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A simple medical diagram of the chest as a stack of thin horizontal axial CT slices, with one thin slice pulled out and shown as a grayscale cross-section; label only “one axial slice” and “scroll stack,” with no front-view heart.

Start with the slice

An axial cardiac CT slice is a thin cross-section through the chest. You are not looking at the heart from the front; you are looking at one horizontal slice at a time, then scrolling through the stack.