Cardiovascular MR Manual

1. What’s Inside the Magnet and Why?
Sven Plein, John P. Greenwood, John P. Ridgway

2. The MRI Environment
Sven Plein, John P. Greenwood, John P. Ridgway

3. Protons and Spins: The Origin of the MRI Signal
Sven Plein, John P. Greenwood, John P. Ridgway

4. Generating a Signal: RF Pulses and Echoes
Sven Plein, John P. Greenwood, John P. Ridgway

5. Relaxation Times, Gradient Echoes, and Spin Echoes
Sven Plein, John P. Greenwood, John P. Ridgway

6. Making an Image: Locating and Encoding Signals in Space
Sven Plein, John P. Greenwood, John P. Ridgway

7. Image Space and k-Space
Sven Plein, John P. Greenwood, John P. Ridgway

8. Imaging Parameters and Image Attributes
Sven Plein, John P. Greenwood, John P. Ridgway

9. Improving SNR with Surface Coils and Array Coils
Sven Plein, John P. Greenwood, John P. Ridgway

10. Pulse Sequences and Image Contrast
Sven Plein, John P. Greenwood, John P. Ridgway

11. Gradient Echo Versus Spin Echo
Sven Plein, John P. Greenwood, John P. Ridgway

12. Black Blood Versus Bright Blood Imaging
Sven Plein, John P. Greenwood, John P. Ridgway

13. Dealing with Cardiac Motion: How Do We Image the Beating Heart?
Sven Plein, John P. Greenwood, John P. Ridgway

14. Dealing with Respiratory Motion
Sven Plein, John P. Greenwood, John P. Ridgway

15. Fast Imaging: How Do We Speed Up the Image Acquisition?
Sven Plein, John P. Greenwood, John P. Ridgway

16. Special Pulse Sequences for Cardiac Imaging
Sven Plein, John P. Greenwood, John P. Ridgway

17. Common Artifacts
Sven Plein, John P. Greenwood, John P. Ridgway

18. The Basics of a CMR Study
Sven Plein

19. Components of CMR Protocols
John P. Greenwood

20. Anatomy by CMR
Charles Peebles

21. The CMR Report
Sven Plein

22. Diseases of the aorta
Andrew M. Crean

23. Cardiomyopathies
Daniel Messroghli, Sven Plein

24. Pericardial Disease
Charles Peebles

25. Cardiac Masses
John P. Greenwood

26. Valvular Heart Disease
Amedeo Chiribiri

27. Ischemic Heart Disease
Adam Mather, Neil Maredia, Sven Plein

28. Basic Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD)
Andrew M. Crean

29. Pulmonary Vein Assessment
Sven Plein, John P. Greenwood

30. Interventional Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Tarique M. Hussain, Kawal Rhode, Gerald F. Greil

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Cardiology, Diagnostic Radiology, Imaging / Radiology, Internal Medicine