E-Book Overview
This book is a comprehensive and authoritative text on the expanding scope of CMR, dedicated to covering basic principles in detail focusing on the needs of cardiovascular imagers. The target audience for this book includes CMR specialists, trainees in CMR and cardiovascular medicine, cardiovascular physicists or clinical cardiovascular imagers. This book includes figures and CMR examples in the form of high-resolution still images and is divided in two sections: basic MRI physics, i.e. the nuts and bolts of MR imaging; and imaging techniques (pulse sequences) used in cardiovascular MR imaging. Each imaging technique is discussed in a separate chapter that includes the physics and clinical applications (with cardiovascular examples) of a particular technique. Evolving techniques or research based techniques are discussed as well. This section covers both cardiac and vascular imaging. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging is now considered a clinically important imaging modality for patients with a wide variety of cardiovascular diseases. Recent developments in scanner hardware, imaging sequences, and analysis software have led to 3-dimensional, high-resolution imaging of the cardiovascular system. These developments have also influenced a wide variety of cardiovascular imaging applications and it is now routinely used in clinical practice in CMR laboratories around the world. The non-invasiveness and lack of ionizing radiation exposure make CMR uniquely important for patients whose clinical condition requires serial imaging follow-up. This is particularly true for patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) with or without surgical corrections who require lifelong clinical and imaging follow-up.
E-Book Information
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Year: 2,015
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Edition: 1
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Pages: XIV, 338
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Pages In File: 337
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Language: English
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Identifier: 978-3-319-22140-3,978-3-319-22141-0
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Doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-22141-0
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Org File Size: 34,592,184
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Extension: pdf
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Tags: Cardiology Diagnostic Radiology
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Toc: Front Matter....Pages i-xivFront Matter....Pages 1-1Signal Generation....Pages 3-11k-Space....Pages 13-23CMR Pulse Sequences....Pages 25-40Spatial, Temporal Resolution and Signal-to-Noise Ratio....Pages 41-62Fast Imaging....Pages 63-86High Field MRI for CMR....Pages 87-95Imaging Artifacts....Pages 97-113MRI Safety....Pages 115-127Front Matter....Pages 129-129Principles of ECG Gating for CMR....Pages 131-143Cardiac Cine Imaging....Pages 145-159Black-Blood CMR....Pages 161-166Tissue Characterization: T1, T2 and T2* Techniques....Pages 167-177Perfusion....Pages 179-192Stress Testing....Pages 193-209Late Gadolinium Enhancement Imaging....Pages 211-226Flow Imaging....Pages 227-243Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Coronary Arteries....Pages 245-260Cardiac Spectroscopy....Pages 261-269Contrast Media....Pages 271-281Contrast-Enhanced MR Angiography....Pages 283-295Front Matter....Pages 129-129Non-contrast Enhanced MRA....Pages 297-314Advanced Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Techniques....Pages 315-325Back M