Table 1

Summary of trials comparing CMR, EBCT, and MSCT with invasive coronary angiography

Modality	Author	Patient numbers	Sensitivity (%)	Specificity (%)	Coronary segments not assessable (%)	Patients excluded because of poor image quality
Cardiac MR	Post et al⁶	20	38	95	4
	Van Geuns et al⁷	38	68	97	31
	Sandstede et al⁹	30	81	89		7
	Regenfus et al¹⁰	50	94	57	33
	Kessler et al¹¹	73	65	88	48	8
	Kim et al¹²	109	93	42	16	6

Electron beam CT	Leber et al¹³	93	78	93	24	6
	Achenbach et al¹⁴	125	92	94	25
	Schmermund et al¹⁵	28	82	88	28
	Reddy et al¹⁶	23	88	79	10

Multislice CT	Nieman et al¹⁷	35	81	97	26
	Knez et al¹⁸	44	78	98	6	1
	Giesler et al¹⁹	100	91	89	29