Cardiac MRI Essentials

CMR is a very versatile imaging modality. Here you'll learn when CMR is useful—and when it isn't.

In this chapter, you'll learn all the steps to performing a standard CMR study.

Stress CMR tells us a lot about coronary artery disease. Learn how stress studies are performed.

Flow CMR can be used to quantify valvular stenosis and regurgitation, shunts, and much more. In this chapter we'll show you how. 

CMR offers accurate and reproducible assessment of left ventricle size and function. Here you'll learn the key principles.

The right ventricle is difficult to assess using echocardiography, but much easier with CMR. We'll show you how to quantify right ventricular size and function.

Learn how to identify areas of myocardial infarction using CMR, how to assess myocardial viability, and how to look for post-infarct complications.

Here we'll take a look at the assessment of myocardial ischemia using perfusion imaging and also regional wall motion abnormalities.

Learn about the CMR assessment of dilated cardiomyopathy, and the clinical significance of mid-wall enhancement.

Cardiac amyloidosis has some characteristic features on CMR. In this chapter, we'll show you what these features are.

Learn how CMR can help in the diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and how it can provide information on myocardial fibrosis and hemodynamics.

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is a fascinating condition. In this chapter, we'll show you which CMR features to look for.

Learn the most effective way to identify left ventricular thrombus using CMR.

Myocarditis can be a challenging clinical diagnosis, but CMR makes things easier. Here you'll learn about the key features to look for.

CMR can tell us a lot about pericardial effusions, pericardial constriction, pericardial cysts, and much more.

The excellent image quality of CMR makes it ideal for studying bicuspid aortic valves. Here we'll learn how to examine aortic valve morphology using CMR.

Learn how to assess the etiology and severity of aortic stenosis using CMR, and also how to assess the consequences for the aorta and left ventricle.

CMR permits the direct quantification of aortic regurgitant volume. Here, we'll show you how this is done.

CMR can be used in the assessment of patients who have undergone aortic valve surgery. Learn what to look for in this chapter.

In this chapter we'll show you how to quantify mitral regurgitation severity and the consequences on the left ventricle.

CMR can be performed after mitral valve repair and replacement to assess any residual or recurrent problems. Learn how in this chapter.

CMR can be used to assess the right-sided heart valves. We'll take a look at the tricuspid valve.

Learn how to assess pulmonary valve disease.

Learn about the CMR criteria for a diagnosis of ARVC and take a look at some examples.

Learn how to assess atrial septal defects and how to quantify shunts.

CMR can show us the anatomy of ventricular septal defects and also allows us to quantify shunts and to assess the consequences for the ventricles.

Learn how CMR can help you assess pulmonary hypertension.

In this chapter you'll learn about the key features of aortic coarctation on CMR.

Like any imaging modality, CMR can reveal unexpected abnormalities. We'll take a look at some examples and how to recognise them.

CMR is prone a number of different imaging artifacts. Learn how to recognise these, and how to avoid them.