Atlas Of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Atlas of Cardiovascular MR, by Christopher M. Kramer, MD and W. Gregory Hundley, MD, provides the rich visual guidance you need to effectively diagnose cardiovascular problems using the latest cardiac magnetic resonance imaging approaches. Using a case-based approach, this new clinical reference explains how to select and implement the best imaging options for every type of cardiovascular disease and shows you how to interpret your findings. An Expert Consult site, included with the book, provides additional images and videos that provide further clarity on cardiovascular applications of MR imaging. Key points in each chapter summarize the most important things to remember. A case-based format demonstrates how imaging principles apply to real clinical situations. A clinically oriented, practical approach focuses on the hands-on knowledge you need to achieve the best image quality, avoid artifacts, and interpret images accurately. Numerous high-quality images, many in full color, mirror the cardiovascular MR findings you see in practice. A companion DVD provides additional images and videos that further illustrate cardiovascular applications of MR imaging. A logical, consistent format in each chapter makes information easy to find.

• Richly illustrated with over 200 illustrations • Contains a Glossary of Terms • Very practical and user-friendly guide

This book offers a practical guidance to healthcare professionals interested in learning how to make adequate clinically-oriented use of cardiovascular MRI. Thanks to its case-based approach, it provides a detailed guide to MRI applications in the most common clinical cardiovascular scenarios. Chapters describe a number of real clinical cases, including concise clinical data, clear descriptions of the most relevant information obtained from MRI and of their meaning in terms of patient management. Emphasis is placed on traditional as well as newer MRI techniques, always keeping a practical format, focused on the hands-on knowledge required for an accurate image interpretation. In the online version, the text of each case is supplemented with additional images and videos, certainly making this book a useful resource for understanding how MRI principles apply to real clinical cardiovascular situations.

Incorporating the latest advances in MR technology and cardiac imaging, this pocket atlas is a rapid guide to interpretation of cardiac MR images. This edition features over 120 sharp new images of normal anatomy and abnormalities and includes new sections on coronary arteries, thoracic MR angiography, three-dimensional surface anatomy, surgical repairs, and imaging protocols. Each page presents a high-resolution image, with anatomic landmarks clearly labeled. Above the image is a key to the labels and a thumbnail illustration that orients readers to the plane of view (sagittal, axial, or coronal). This format enables readers to identify features quickly and accurately.

Describes and illustrates protocols and techniques for all types of cardiovascular examination in which CMR may be used, for improved diagnosis, patient management, and experimental investigation.

Magnetic resonance imaging became clinical in 1981 and since that time, has spread in the United States, Europe and Japan like wild fire. The tremendous advantages of the method consisting of safety, superb soft tissue contrast resolution, the ability to study flow, the ability to image in any plane or acquire data in 3D and an almost infinite array of sequences capable of distinguishing between disease and normal tissue, normal and abnormal blood flow make it incomparable for the diagnosis and study of multiple diseases and is particularly valuable in studying the heart and major vessels. The authors of this book have understood that the secret of success of MR imaging in the study of the heart is to combine the knowledge of anatomy of the heart, the coronary vessels, the pericardium and large vessels with the intricacies of MR imaging. This is why they go deeply into the basic principles of NMR, starting from the essentials and going then into detailed techniques of acquiring images from traditional spin echo to gradient echo and ultra fast imaging approaches, such as the multi shot and EPI. The flow phenomena are also discussed in detail from flow and magnetic field gradients diastolic pseudogating.

This Atlas is a comprehensive, four-color visual compendium of CMR images, photomicrographs, anatomic illustrations, tables, and charts paired with extensive legends and explanations drawn from the latest peer-reviewed literature. In addition to providing historical perspective and current direction for CMR, this atlas focuses on research involving coronary artery diseases and anomalies, congestive heart failure, atherosclerotic plaques, and asymptomatic disease. The Atlas details imaging techniques, including preparation, acquisition, and processing, for study of the great vessels and carotids, the peripheral vasculature, and the coronary and pulmonary veins. Also included are discussions of the role of CMR in the emergency department and in clinical cardiology and private cardiology practices.