Reviewing specific diseases in terms of the cardiac MR approach and procedures, this essential reference focuses fully on cardiac MR as it relates to congenital heart disease. Equipped with an atlas of images and their interpretation, this book will prove indispensable to any cardiac imaging lab.
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List of contributors, vii Foreword, x Preface, xi Part I: The basics of cardiac MR 1 Physics of cardiac MR and image formation, 3 Orlando P Simonetti and Georgeta Mihai 2 Technical aspects of pediatric cardiac MR, 17 Christopher Occleshaw 3 Assessment of morphology, 33 John C Wood 4 Assessment of ventricular function and blood fl ow, 51 Mark A Fogel 5 Contrast cardiac MR -- anatomy, physiology, viability and perfusion, 75 Scott D Flamm Part II: Cardiac MR of congenital and acquired pediatric heart disease 6 The normal cardiac magnetic resonance examination -- ruling out congenital heart disease, 93 Matthew Harris and Mark A Fogel 7 Abnormalities of the atria and systemic veins, 110 Tiffanie R Johnson and Mark A Fogel 8 Abnormalities of the ventricles and pericardium, 124 Beth F Printz 9 MRI in conotruncal anomalies (except tetralogy of Fallot), 155 Willem A Helbing and Adriaan Moelker 10 Tetralogy of Fallot: morphology and function, 172 Arno AW Roest, Lucia JM Kroft and Albert de Roos 11 Aortic arch anomalies, 183 Paul M Weinberg and Kevin K Whitehead 12 MR assessment of pulmonary circulation, 209 Shi-Joon Yoo and Lars Grosse-Wortmann 13 Valvular heart disease, 236 Juha Koskenvuo, Karen G Ordovas and Charles B Higgins 14 Imaging coronary arteries in children, 250 Gerald F Greil, Rene M Botnar and Taylor Chung 15 Other complex congenital heart disease -- heterotaxy, complex spatial relationships, conjoined twins and ectopia cordis, 265 Rajesh Krishnamurthy and Taylor Chung Part III: Special topics in cardiac MR of pediatric and congenital heart disease 16 Cardiac magnetic resonance of single ventricles, 289 Mark A Fogel 17 Baffl es and conduits, 316 Philipp Beerbaum, Israel Valverde, Gerald F Greil and Sonya V Babu-Narayan 18 Cardiac tumors, 345 Ashwin Prakash 19 Considerations in the post-operative patient, 354 G Wesley Vick III 20 Interventional magnetic resonance imaging, 382 Gerald F Greil, Sanjeet Hegde, Kawal Rhode, Carsten Schirra, Philipp Beerbaum and Reza Razavi 21 Adult congenital heart disease, 398 Victor A Ferrari and Alexander R Opotowsky 22 Cardiovascular computed tomographic angiography: complementary role to magnetic resonance imaging, 414 Jeffrey C Hellinger and Stephen C Cook 23 Radiation in cardiac imaging in congenital heart disease, 429 Mark A Fogel 24 Pediatric cardiovascular MRI in the outpatient private practice setting, 440 Nancy L Morris and Edward T Martin 25 The role of the technologist in performing a cardiac MRI (CMR) exam, 444 Christine Harris Index, 450
