Cedars-Sinai's Department of Cardiac Imaging provides cardiac health screenings using three-dimensional moving pictures to measure the amount of hardening of the arteries in the heart and determine the patient's risk for coronary artery disease.

Our new Dual Source CT scanner has two x-ray tubes oriented at 90 degrees to one another. This allows us to obtain the 180 degrees of information required for tomography in half the time of a standard, fast (64-slice) CT. Our images can be obtained in 83 milliseconds.

It is recommended that women older than 55 and men older than 45 have this test, as well as patients with these risk factors:

• Family history of heart disease
• High cholesterol levels
• High blood pressure
• Smoking
• Obesity
• Diabetes
• High-stress lifestyle
• No regular exercise program