Cardiovascular imaging has become essential to achieving a better understanding of cardiovascular diseases. Due to the advent of new technology and the refinement of existing technologies, imaging's role has extended into the biological, functional, and hemodynamic diagnosis of multiple pathophysiologic processes. Current and future trends in cardiovascular imaging will focus on improving early...

Mailing Address: Carlos E. Rochitte • Av. Dr. Enéas de Carvalho Aguiar 44 Andar AB Ressonância & Tomografia Cerqueira César 05403-000 São Paulo, SP, Brasil E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Manuscript received December 08, 2011; revised manuscript receibed December 08, 2011; accepted December 08, 2011. We witness the “Renaissance” of cardiovascular imaging. Non-invasive cardiov...

chieving Quality in Cardiovascular Imaging roceedings From the American College of Cardiology–Duke University edical Center Think Tank on Quality in Cardiovascular Imaging eveloped in Collaboration With the Cardiovascular Imaging Collaborative uality Work Group, American College of Radiology, American Heart Association, merican Society of Echocardiography, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology...

Background Recently, high-field 7T MR imaging was introduced. The higher field-strength has potential advantages, mainly related to increased signal-to-noise-ratio. One of the potentially exciting applications may be cardiovascular MR imaging. Cardiovascular MRI requires robust correction for heart motion, breathing motion and correction of field inhomogeneities. Therefore, cardiovascular imagi...

s the chair of the Cardiovascular Imaging Section, I recently asked the members of the Imaging Council to consider multimodality imaging: its definition and application and the opportunities for tomorrow. The Council is composed of representatives from the American College of Cardiology, the American Society of Echocardiography, the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, the Society for Cardio...

oday’s trainees and early career physicians in cardiology have seen unprecedented changes in the health care landscape. Rapidly advancing imaging technology has helped clinicians take great strides in the diagnosis and management of cardiovascular disease. Diagnostic tools have augmented patients’ medical histories and physical examinations in cardiology more than in most other medical fields. ...

The goal of this review is to highlight how molecular imaging will impact the management and improved understanding of the major cardiovascular diseases that have substantial clinical impact and research interest. These topics include atherosclerosis, myocardial ischemia, myocardial viability, heart failure, gene therapy, and stem cell transplantation. Traditional methods of evaluation for thes...

Molecular imaging holds the promise of becoming a key diagnostic modality in cardiovascular medicine by allowing visualization of specific targets and pathways that precede or underlie changes in morphology, physiology, and function. As such, molecular imaging aims at detecting precursors or early stages of cardiovascular disease and at monitoring and guiding novel, increasingly specific and ve...

The challenges for cardiac MR imaging range in a magic triangle of spatial and temporal resolution, signal-to-noise ratio and the limitations induced by the need for breath-hold imaging. With the advent of multi-channel whole-body MRI systems at 3Tesla, these limitations can now be overcome. Parallel acquisition techniques (PAT) allow increasing temporal or spatial resolution at virtually no co...

Division of Cardiology, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique (IREC), Cliniques Universitaires St Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium; Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet and University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; Centre of Cardiological Innovation, Oslo, Norway; Avenue de l’hôpital, 1, Department of...