Myocardial Viability
The detection of residual myocardial viability in a patient with regional or global severe left ventricular (LV) dysfunction is of clinical importance to plan the therapeutic strategy because revascularization of…
Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Tagging for Assessment of Left Ventricular Diastolic Function
Left ventricular (LV) diastolic function has been recognized as an important factor in the pathophysiology of many common cardiovascular diseases. Dilated and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), coronary artery disease (CAD), and…
Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Coronary Arteries: Technique
Despite significant efforts in prevention and treatment, coronary artery disease (CAD) remains the leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for one in every seven deaths. Each year…
Acute Myocardial Infarction: Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Detection and Characterization
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) can characterize acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in unique ways and with high quality. Cine CMR can assess left ventricular (LV) volumes, ejection fraction (LVEF), and regional…
Clinical Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging Techniques
The first dedicated cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) clinical services opened in the United States in mid-1990s. Since that time, CMR imaging has become routine at most academic medical centers, with…
Stress Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance: Wall Motion
Master and Oppenheimer described the first stress test in 1929. Several methods of assessing myocardial ischemia have subsequently been developed, including those that incorporate electrocardiograms (ECGs), echocardiography, myocardial scintigraphy, and,…
Acute Myocardial Infarction: Ventricular Remodeling
Approximately 550,000 Americans will suffer an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) each year. Despite major advances in AMI therapies, mortality and incident heart failure (HF) remain significant problems. Five-year mortality is…
Stress Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance: Clinical Myocardial Perfusion
Considerable progress in myocardial perfusion cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) has been achieved recently and its diagnostic performance has been documented in single-center and multicenter trials. From single-center trials, and particularly…
Human Cardiac Magnetic Resonance at Ultrahigh Fields: Technical Innovations, Early Clinical Applications and Opportunities for Discoveries
The development of ultrahigh field magnetic resonance (UHF-MR, B 0 ≥ 7 T, f ≥ 298 MHz) is moving forward at an amazing speed that is breaking through technical barriers almost as…
Assessment of Cardiac Function
The accurate and reproducible assessment of cardiac function is a fundamental aim of noninvasive cardiac imaging. It forms the foundation upon which much of the assessment and management of myocardial…
