Cardiovascular MR Manual

1. What’s Inside the Magnet and Why?
2. The MRI Environment
3. Protons and Spins: The Origin of the MRI Signal
4. Generating a Signal: RF Pulses and Echoes
5. Relaxation Times, Gradient Echoes, and Spin Echoes
6. Making an Image: Locating and Encoding Signals in Space
7. Image Space and k-Space
8. Imaging Parameters and Image Attributes
9. Improving SNR with Surface Coils and Array Coils
10. Pulse Sequences and Image Contrast
11. Gradient Echo Versus Spin Echo
12. Black Blood Versus Bright Blood Imaging
13. Dealing with Cardiac Motion: How Do We Image the Beating Heart?
14. Dealing with Respiratory Motion
15. Fast Imaging: How Do We Speed Up the Image Acquisition?
16. Special Pulse Sequences for Cardiac Imaging
17. Common Artifacts
18. The Basics of a CMR Study
19. Components of CMR Protocols
20. Anatomy by CMR
21. The CMR Report
22. Diseases of the aorta
23. Cardiomyopathies
24. Pericardial Disease
25. Cardiac Masses
26. Valvular Heart Disease
27. Ischemic Heart Disease
28. Basic Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD)
29. Pulmonary Vein Assessment
30. Interventional Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging

The aim of this book is to provide a compact text for practicing physicians and cardiologists or radiologists in training that contains all aspects of cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging relevant for the appropriate use of this imaging modality in clinical practice. In a tutorial style, the book provides an overview of the relevant physics that govern CMR imaging and provide details on commonly accepted indications for referral. The book also provides the necessary background information to get trainees prepared for training in a CMR center. The emphasis of the book will be on practical, hands-on information in a format small enough to be carried about for ease of use. The book will be a dense but extremely portable reference for all cardiologists involved in using or requesting MRI of their cardiac patients. This will be an all-in-one resource and of great clinical value.