Table 3 Coronary blood flow, flow velocity, and microvascular resistance derived from CCTA.

From: Non-invasive coronary physiology based on computational analysis of intracoronary transluminal attenuation gradient

 

N of vessel

CBF (ml/min)

CBF per myocardium (g) (ml/g/min)

Luminal volume (cm3)

Mean luminal area (mm2)

Flow velocity (cm/sec)

Microvascular resistance (mmHg/cm/sec)

TAG (HU/cm)

All

290

43.7 (28.0–61.2)

0.87 (0.68–1.00)

0.90 (0.62–1.23)

7.38 (5.85– 9.29)

19.0 (14.0–24.6)

4.6 (3.6–6.3)

−16.8 (−24.0–−11.9)

DS = 0%

185

44.2 (27.6–47.6)

0.91 (0.76–1.04)

0.94 (0.61–1.28)

7.80 (6.35–9.70)

18.2 (13.6–23.5)

5.0 (3.9–6.7)

−17.0 (−23.5–−11.8)

DS = 1–49%

34

47.3 (30.3–65.0)

0.84 (0.70–0.98)

0.83 (0.64–1.10)

6.28 (5.36–7.73)

23.6 (17.3–29.6)

3.8 (3.0–5.1)

−14.8 (−22.6–−10.5)

DS = 50–69%

38

37.3 (27.2–64.1)

0.69 (0.59–0.80)

0.80 (0.57–0.96)

6.07 (4.99–7.34)

20.3 (15.0–27.9)

4.0 (3.0–5.5)

−16.0 (−20.1–−13.5)

DS ≥ 70%

33

31.2 (29.3–46.9)

0.64 (0.54–0.76)

0.74 (0.60–1.02)

6.25 (5.70–7.65)

17.4 (14.2–23.5)

3.7 (2.7–4.5)

−24.1 (−27.9–−17.3)

p for trend

 

0.31

<0.001

0.036

<0.001

0.05

0.002

0.31

  1. p for trend denotes comparison within each column.