Cardiac and Peripheral Vascular MR

Cardiac and Peripheral Vascular MR

Course Overview

This two-and-a-half-day course is designed to optimize clinical practice skills by providing intense training in interpreting cardiac MR examinations under the supervision of expert faculty.

Participants will use a FujiPACS workstation and have access to over 50 cardiac MR and vascular MR Angiography cases for review. Post-processing techniques and interpretation will be emphasized. The course also covers technical considerations for obtaining optimal examinations for interpretation.

Schedule & Registration
Member Fee*: $4,000.00
June 10-12, 2011 (Fri – Sun)

Course Director

Ricardo C. Cury, M.D.
Medical Director, Cardiac MRI and CT
Baptist Cardiac & Vascular Institute
Associate Medical Director, Emergency Radiology
Baptist Hospital, Miami, Fla.

Program Objectives
At the conclusion of this conference, participants will be able to:

1. Identify normal cardiovascular anatomy and normal anatomic variants.

2. Determine the spectrum of ischemic and non-ischemic cardiomyopathies, including function, rest and stress perfusion and viability.

3. Evaluate of pericardial constriction, cardiac masses, valvular disease, pulmonary veins and cardiac shunts.

4. Identify new techniques such as assessment of area at risk and myocardial edema with T2W imaging.

5. Interpret Vascular MRA including: Aorta, renal, carotid, visceral and peripheral vessels

6. Recognize imaging manifestations of cardiovascular disease, and the complementary role of MRI to echocardiography, CT and cardiac catheterization in therapeutic decision-making.

7. Apply the technical basis of cardiovascular MRI, including hardware requirements, sequence selection and optimization, and technical limitations.

8. Apply post-processing techniques for functional, flow and angiographic evaluation.

9. Review ongoing technical and clinical developments in the field of Cardiovascular MRI

Attendees who interpret a minimum of 50 cardiovascular MR scans will be awarded a Certificate of Proficiency stating they meet the case requirement as specified in the ACR Practice Guideline for Performance and Interpretation of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).

* Members-in-Training fee is 50% off member rate. Attendees who register 3 months in advance will receive a $250 discount (Member-In-Training: $125 discount). Late registrations received within two weeks of the course will be charged an additional $500 (Member-In-Training: additional $250).